Administrative legal relations on countering bullying in Ukraine and worldwide

Given the rapid spread of bullying and the emergence of new forms of its manifestations, it becomes necessary to investigate the dynamics of the development and establishment of administrative legal relations to counteract it. The purpose of the study was to compare administrative legal relations on countering bullying in different countries. To achieve this goal, considering the contemporary human- centred legal understanding, such methods as historical, comparative legal, modelling, and dogmatic were used. The study was devoted to a comparative legal analysis of administrative and legal mechanisms for countering bullying in the children's environment, in particular, in the context of the experience of European states. It was emphasised that no European legal system has developed a universally effective toolkit for responding to bullying, but in a number of countries, in particular in Germany, a high level of institutional autonomy of educational institutions has been formed, which have broad administrative powers to introduce internal preventive and procedural practices. In such models, society is actually integrated into the system of administrative supervision and is an active subject of countering any manifestations of violence, which demonstrates significant effectiveness in ensuring a safe educational environment. Based on an interdisciplinary approach that combines administrative and legal analysis, elements of the sociology of deviant behaviour and comparative research, the hypothesis of the need to modernise Ukrainian legislation in the field of countering bullying, in particular, by introducing amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences of Ukraine, was substantiated. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using its results by government agencies at various levels to improve the effectiveness of interaction and improve administrative procedures for responding to bullying cases