Journal section JURISPRUDENCE
Analysis of the project “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation to provide the victim, suspect, accused with the possibility of reconciliation”
Mashinskaya N. V. Analysis of the project “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation to provide the victim, suspect, accused with the possibility of reconciliation”. Penitenciarnaya nauka = Penitentiary Science. 2020; 14(3):362–367. (In Russ.). DOI 10.46741/2686-9764-2020-14-3-362-367.
The problem of legislative regulation of the procedure for reconciliation
of the victim with the suspected, the accused until a certain time was only a subject of
discussion in the scientific literature. At the same time the state’s need to find measures that can eliminate the consequences of crimes without the use of ordinary criminal procedures
has actualized the work on introducing alternative methods of settling the criminal-legal
conflict into criminal proceedings. Given the urgent need to apply this procedure in
practice, the Interregional Public Center “Judicial and Legal Reform” has developed and
posted on its website a draft federal law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of
the Russian Federation to Provide the Victim, Suspect, and Accused with the Possibility
of Reconciliation.” To implement the procedure for reconciliation in criminal proceedings,
the drafters of the bill propose to include a new chapter in the Criminal Procedure Code
of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Criminal Procedure Code of the
Russian Federation).
The author of the article critically evaluates the attempt due to the inconsistency of
a number of novels, their uncertainty and inconsistency with the norms of the criminal
procedure law. To eliminate the existing shortcomings, it is proposed to provide a separate
article defining the procedural status of the conciliator and to include the specified rule
in Ch. 8 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. As a guarantee of the
right of the victim, suspect, accused to reconciliation, the introduction of an appropriate
addition to the criminal procedure norms governing the legal status of the named
participants in criminal proceedings is considered.
Keywords: criminal law conflict; restoration of the victims rights; criminal procedural status
Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation, PhD. in Law, Associate Professor
ORCID 0000-0002-1942-7288
, e-mail n.mashinskaya@narfu.ru
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