ABUSE OF RIGHTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS: SOME RESULTS OF THE STUDY
- Authors: Andreeva O.I.1, Trubnikova T.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Department of the Criminal Procedure, Prosecutorial Supervision and Law Enforcement Activities, Institute of Law, National Research Tomsk State University
- Issue: Vol 3, No 4 (2017)
- Pages: 86-94
- Section: Criminal procedure
- URL: https://journals.ssau.ru/jjsu/article/view/6047
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18287/2542-047X-2017-3-4-86-94
- ID: 6047
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Abstract
The article presents the results of a study of law enforcement practice, carried out in 2016 – 2017 on the project «Abuse of the right in criminal proceedings: systemic and nonsystemic manifestations, their prevention and suppression». The subject of the study were materials of archival criminal cases, materials of appellate and cassation proceedings, complaints filed in accordance with Art. 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, published court decisions and materials of complaints in the archives of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The article describes the situations that are considered or can be considered as abuse of the right by the participants in the criminal process, systematizes the identified forms of abuse of law, estimates the prevalence and nature of these forms (systemic / non-systemic), identifies the causes and conditions that contributed to a number of situations of abuse of rights, their relationship to the quality of the current law is shown, the best and worst measures of response to the abuse of law, used in practice.
About the authors
O. I. Andreeva
Department of the Criminal Procedure, Prosecutorial Supervision and Law Enforcement Activities, Institute of Law, National Research Tomsk State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: grigorjewa.katerina@yandex.ru
Russian Federation
T. V. Trubnikova
Department of the Criminal Procedure, Prosecutorial Supervision and Law Enforcement Activities, Institute of Law, National Research Tomsk State University
Email: grigorjewa.katerina@yandex.ru
Russian Federation
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