THE SECURITY MEASURES IN SYSTEM OF MEANS OF LEGAL INFLUENCE: TOOL ASPECT Katkov Evgeniy Aleksandrovich, postgraduate student. <...> Email: Katkov-evgen@rambler.ru Annotation Task: In article from functional (tool) positions the place and the role of security measures in the system of means of legal influence are defined, the essential differences of security measures as a special kind of legal means are proved. <...> Model: methodological basis of research are the modern methods of knowledge revealed by jurisprudence and approved by practice. <...> Conclusions: relevance and the practical importance of formation locates in article at general-theoretical level of concept of security measures, its differentiation from the concept of protection measures. <...> The special attention is .. paid to detection of characteristic features and signs of security measures as legal category. <...> Framework research/possibility of the subsequent use of results of scientific work: provisions formulated in article and conclusions supplement and develop appropriate sections of the general theory of the state and the right: the legal mechanisms, and the security measures, the delineation of safety measures and protection. <...> Originality/value: the conducted general-theoretical research of a problem of security measures in the right can serve as a methodological basis for more their detailed scientific analysis for the solution of problems of improvement of activity of legislative and law-enforcement bodies in the sphere of safety of interests of the personality, society and the state. <...>