Legal self-help as an element of legal self-defense

To ensure and implement the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the individual, the state not only determines their set, restraint and implementation mechanism, but also guarantees protection and protection. The right to defense is essential for effective enforcement. Legal protection and protection are carried out both by the state itself and by various institutions of civil society. Some protective possibilities are provided to the personality itself. They are legalized as self-defense. The initial manifestation of self-defense is legal self-help. The purpose of the research is to correlate legal self-help and self-defense, to determine its restorative and protective aspects, the possibilities of using it to ensure the legitimate interests of the individual in modern society. Results. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that legal self-help is the starting element of self-defense, is available to everyone, however, it is not fully used. Legalized and illegal self-help mechanisms are known. In fact, self-help begins already at the moment of legal socialization. Legalized self-help is expressed as permissible self-ruling. The construction of self-defense essentially includes self-help, but it is normatively fixed only as a measure of an individual's reaction to the fact of an offense. Changes in legislation are advisable to expand the design of self-defense. It is necessary to take into account its preventive potential.

legal self-help, legal self-defense, protection of law, permissible arbitrariness, extrajudicial protection