Administrative coercion and administrative penaltiesin the irratiounder the legislation of Ukraine

Objective. The purpose of this article isto explore approaches to defining the legalnature of administrative coercion and administrativepenalties, their correlation, and interdependencein the process of practical implementationby law enforcement agencies(officials).The methodological basis of the articlecomprises a set of scientific cognition methods:dialectical, structural-functional analysis, formal-normative analysis, comparative-legal,phenomenological, and logical met hods.