This article is about criminal legal analysis of the ruffianism offence. Recognition of individual rights and liberties as the most important social values requires the creation and formation of social conditions, which would protect people’s security, normal functioning of institutions, organizations and enterprises. Specific crimes against public security and public order lies in the fact that they are harmful to a wider circle of social values, as a result these kind of crimes are causing damages not only to a concrete person, but to the most important social values, such as social security in general.