Security of society in Lithuania : concept and scientific fundamentals in its ensuring

ENThe article presents the current issues and latest trends of public security concept and general outlines of ensuring thereof in Lithuania. Public security is analysed as a general scientific and legal category. Analysis is commenced from the discussion of the general security concept, highlighting the nature of security as a phenomenon and types thereof. Thereafter the interaction of international and national security is analysed, underlining that national security is an integral part of international security. Further analysis is given of the categories of security of state and society; their possible decoupling is presented and interaction revealed. Hereafter, an analysis of the public security sector as a part of national security is provided by highlighting how the categories of public and national security are interacting. Also covers the role of administrative law in ensuring public security, revealing the legal and institutional mechanisms used for ensuring public security in Lithuania, and discussing the main tendencies of legal regulation and the institutional setting of public governance.The author applied general scientific methods of studying objective reality, peculiar to legal sciences: systematic document analysis, meta-analysis, structural-functional analysis, teleological, comparative, critical approach, generalisation and prediction. As a result author noted, that inefficient ensuring of internal security determines the enhancement of threats to national security, and transnational threats jeopardise national security safeguarding. Moreover, the integrity of international and national security categories is also predetermined by the development of globalisation processes and information technologies. [From the publication]