Teisinis nihilizmas: jo priežastys bei įveikimo galimybės bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje ; Legal Nihilism: its Causes and Ways of Overcoming in Comprehensive School
20 years ago Lithuanian society adopted in the national referendum the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania in which preamble is stated that Lithuania seeks to become an open, fair, harmonious society and a constitutional state. But nearly two decades in the independent state developing legal, social security, economic and political systems testify that in our society has set in a value-system when such a value as the law is ignored and eliminated, i.e. the phenomenon of legal nihilism has spread. In this work the peculiarities of legal nihilism, also its causes and ways of overcoming in the comprehensive schools are analyzed. 98 students from the 7-8th forms of the Radviliškis X lower secondary school and 82 parents took part in the research. In the work the statistical data analysis was done in order to summarize the questionnaire. The most important findings of the empirical research: hypothesis of the work – not having investigated the causes of legal nihilism in comprehensive school and identified its results, we are not able to understand its destructive nature and to take effective means for its reduction, first in the comprehensive schools, and later in society. The concept legal nihilism and the departure from the rules and the proprieties among the parents with further education and university education isn't significant statistically. The concept legal nihilism among girls and boys isn't meaningful statistically. The departure from the rules and the proprieties among girls and boys is significant statistically. Boys are more prone to depart from the rules and break the common decency. Knowledge of law and legal terminology is important in teaching of young generation. Most parents, having taken part in the research, knew the legal concepts such as legal nihilism, low, freedom and equality . There were fewer students who could define the concept legal nihilism. More than half of the students indicated that the concept legal nihilism isn't well known to them.