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Peculiarities of the apprehension of economic offences by learners
Timeliness of the present research is determined by the overall trend – the increasing growth of the legal consciousness of learners. This tendency is denoted in the Federal State Educational Standards of secondary (complete) and general education. The purpose of this research is to analyze relationships between learners’ knowledge about economic offences, a skill to distinguish them and learners’ attitude towards offences. The research is carried out on the basis of Moscow schools by means of valid test techniques developed by the authors in 2013-2017. The diagnostic methods employed aim to determine the level of development of the apprehension of economic offences and at the diagnostics of the developmental level of skill to distinguish such offences and attitude towards offending behavior. Our first hypothesis is about that the attitude of senior pupils towards unlawful behavior in the sphere of economics is interconnected with the level of development of knowledge about the content of economic offences. To identify the nature of this offence, our second hypothesis assumes that the attitude of high school learners towards illegal behavior in the sphere of economics is interconnected with the level of development. We have managed to confirm both of the hypotheses. Thus, through the development of learners’ cognitive sphere, it is possible to widen their perception about the nature and harmful consequence of offending behavior, in this way forming negative attitude towards it.