GIS-BASED MAPPING OF REGIONAL LEGAL RISKS AS A TOOL FOR BUILDING PRACTICE-ORIENTED LEGAL LITERACY OF STUDENT YOUTH.

Abstract

The article proposes a new tool for student legal education: geoinformation mapping of regional legal risks. The idea is to use spatial visualization to show which legal issues are typical for a specific territory. These could include land cadastral disputes, environmental violations, labor and migration conflicts, and consumer risks. The collected data is then used in educational work with students. The topic is relevant because the content of legal education is usually quite abstract and not tied to the place where students live and study. Because of this, it has little personal relevance and seems distant. While geoinformation technologies are already widely used in urban planning, ecology, and criminology, they are practically unused in civic and legal education. The article attempts to fill this gap. Drawing on the theory of crime geography, critical cartography, and the Russian Federation’s public policy in the area of legal literacy development, the author proposes a typology of regional legal risks suitable for mapping, a methodological algorithm for creating and using a legal risk map in project-based legal education work with students, and identifies the pedagogical potential and limitations of the method, including the issue of data quality and the ethical risk of stigmatizing territories. The theoretical significance of the study lies in expanding the tools of spatial (geographical) analysis to the field of legal pedagogy; its practical significance lies in providing university professors and youth policy specialists with a project-based tool for enhancing the practical value of legal literacy development in students majoring in fields other than law.