Legal Provision of Personal Safety of the Victim in Criminal Proceedings
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Legal Provision of Personal Safety of the Victim in Criminal Proceedings
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S1605-65900000622-5-1
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Article
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Authors
Oleg Zaytcev 
Occupation: Chief Researcher, Center of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Legislation
Affiliation: Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Address: Moscow, Russia
Pages
82-98
Abstract

The article deals with problematic issues of the application of c riminal procedural measures of personal security in relation to the victim at various stages of criminal proceedings. The emphasis is placed on the study of trends in the legal regulation of the participation of a person who has suffered from a crime, in respect of which state protection is carried out. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the main trends in the development of criminal procedure and other legislation, as well as the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

The purpose of the study is to identify the most acceptable ways to improve the legal regulation of ensuring the personal safety of victims by officials conducting criminal proceedings. Research objectives: to determine the main scientific views on the current state of protection of victims of crimes that promote justice in the course of criminal proceedings; to identify the specifics of legislation containing measures of state protection of participants in legal proceedings; substantiation of further development of criminal procedural guarantees for the protection of victims from unlawful influence by the accused and other persons.

Methodological basis of the research: dialectical method of cognition, general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, abstraction, special legal methods.

Conclusion. It is necessary to improve the legal provision of personal safety of persons affected by criminal influence. The forecast of further events regarding the legal regulation of the relations under consideration is given. Promising directions of scientific research are indicated in order to develop a set of theoretical provisions aimed at solving the problem.

Keywords
Constitution of the Russian Federation, Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, criminal proceedings, criminal procedural guarantees, victim, victim of crime, criminal procedural security measures
Date of publication
25.10.2023
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