. The issue of state coercion in the last decade is becoming particularly current, its role and value have been reconsidered, which is largely conditioned by the socio-economic and political changes in contemporary society. The state coercion is one of the methods of performing state administration functions in different areas of social life (at the same time different methods can be applied to influence the members of society, such as: sanction or threat of its application, remuneration or other incentives, persuasion, etc.). Thus, the research of any legal phenomenon must not have a separate fragmentary character, but must be carried out, taking into account its place in the larger phenomena that absorb it, with the detection of functiona...