Security of the participants in the criminal process: procedural and criminological aspects

Seguridad de los participantes en el proceso penal: aspectos procesales y criminológicos

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4074.01
Keywords: criminal proceedings, opposition to the investigation, individual rights and freedoms, security of participants in criminal proceedings, security measures

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of procedural and criminological aspects of ensuring the safety of participants in criminal proceedings. The problems of legal regulation of ensuring the safety of participants in these proceedings are also considered. The legal status of the subjects of relevant decisions is analyzed and the international and Ukrainian experience in regulating these issues is studied. The methods of dialectical, formal-logical, historical, structural-functional, institutional analysis, content analysis of laws and regulations and the method of evaluation of scientific positions were used. Among the relevant results of the research, the necessity of implementing security measures for participants of criminal proceedings in the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine in a separate section was demonstrated. Similarly, the expediency of creating in Ukraine a specialized independent structural unit for the implementation of measures to protect persons involved in criminal proceedings is discussed. In the main conclusions the need for the introduction in Ukraine of corresponding programs for the protection of participants in criminal proceedings is argued.

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Author Biographies

Mykhailo Huzela, National University Lviv Polytechnic University, Lviv, Ukraine.

PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department Criminal law and Criminal Procedure at Іnstitute of Law, Psychology and Innovative Education of the National University Lviv Polytechnic University, Lviv, Ukraine.

Iryna Shulhan, National University Lviv Polytechnic University, Lviv, Ukraine.

PhD in Law, Assistant of the Department Criminal law and Criminal Procedure at Іnstitute of Law, Psychology and Innovative Education of the National University Lviv Polytechnic University, Lviv, Ukraine.

Ruslan Shekhavtsov, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.

Candidate of legal sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of the Faculty No1 of the Institute for the Training of Specialists for National Police Units of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.

Andrii Khytra, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.

Candidate of legal sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.

Maryna Kukos, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Candidate of Higher Education, Doctor of Philosophy at Department of Doctoral and Adjunct Studies of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine. 

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Published
2022-09-27
How to Cite
Huzela, M., Shulhan, I., Shekhavtsov, R., Khytra, A., & Kukos, M. (2022). Security of the participants in the criminal process: procedural and criminological aspects: Seguridad de los participantes en el proceso penal: aspectos procesales y criminológicos. Political Questions, 40(74), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4074.01
Issue
Vol. 40 No. 74 (2022): Cuestiones Políticas
Section
Derecho Público

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