Juvenile Justice as a Guarantee for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency

The article deals with the issues of international legal cooperation in the sphere of juvenile justice as a guarantee of juvenile delinquency prevention. It is stated that one of the most important rights of children in the sphere of juvenile crime prevention is the right of children for protection from crime and its harmful consequences. The world community and individual states need to prevent children’s contact with criminals, who have a particularly negative impact on children, given their special needs related to their age and development. Prevention of juvenile delinquency should be aimed at preventing the involvement of juveniles in criminal activities. Juvenile justice is the most effective way to prevent juvenile delinquency.

Conciliation Procedures Involving Minors in Criminal Proceedings

The article reveals the possibilities of using conciliation technologies on minors in Russian criminal proceedings. The author analyzes the statutes of the draft law aimed at reforming the criminal procedure law and assesses the prospects for the use of special conciliation procedures as an alternative to criminal prosecution of minors.

Evolution of Norms on Punishment of Minors in Domestic Criminal Legislation

Without understanding the historical realities of the evolution of native legislation, it is impossible to analyze the directions of its further development, since the stability of legal norms is checked mainly by the conditions of their genesis. The institution of juvenile punishment in its development has gone a long and difficult way. Its formation was closely related to the state of the social, economic and political situation in the country, as well as the tasks of criminal policy.

Identification and Consideration of the Child's Opinion in Parental Disputes about Children

The question of the child’s age sufficient to take it into account in a family conflict continues to be debatable. To resolve it, the authors of the article analyze the norms of Russian and foreign legislation, the positions of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, representatives of legal science, as well as materials of judicial practice. The authors come to the conclusion that it is inexpedient to establish an age limit in the ability to take into account the child’s opinion in a controversial legal relationship. Emphasis must be placed on the actual level of physical and mental development of the minor. For this, it is proposed to use the available expert methods of interviewing children in order to identify their opinions, which are specially designed to overcome difficulties in communicating with children of different age categories. The article reveals the peculiarities of the implementation of measures for legal education in the field of informing minors about their rights, ways of protecting and restoring them. The authors insist on expanding the content of Article 57 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation, which regulates the content of the child’s right to express their opinion, and propose legislative innovations in the regulation of certain methods of protecting the rights and interests of children.

Grounds for the Application of Compulsory Measures of Educational Influence to Minors as a Means of Implementing the Corrective Function of Criminal Law

The question of grounds to use of coercive measures of educational influence still remains one of the unresolved issues both in the theory of criminal law and at the level of legislation. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the most important task of implementing these measures is to eliminate gaps in the socialization of the adolescent’s personality as one of the key determinants of delinquent behavior. At the same time, it should be taken into account that the real corrective effect on the psyche and behavior of a minor criminal can be provided not by all, but only by those measures of influence that are associated with training (education), work, familiarization with culture (social and cultural values), as well as active involvement of the convicted person in other socially useful activities.

On the Development in the Saratov Region of the Public Movement of Law Enforcement «Young Friend of Police»

Protection of the rights of minors is a priority and integral part of the policy of our state. In this regard, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Saratov Region, within its competence, is constantly implementing comprehensive measures to prevent juvenile delinquency and family problems, in particular, we are talking about creating, in cooperation with the education authorities, the «Young Friend of Police» detachments.

The Influence of School on Criminalization of Minors

The article is devoted to the shortcomings of legal socialization at school, which have a significant impact on the formation of the personality of adolescents. Defects in teaching activities in the field of school education affect the criminalization of minors.

Juvenile Law: A Complex Branch in the Russian Law System

The article is devoted to a new complex branch of law — juvenile law. The article identifies the necessity and importance of the complex branch of juvenile law in the system of Russian law, reveals its structuring as a new branch of law. The article analyzes the subject and method of legal regulation of the complex branch of juvenile law. This is a kind of secondary legal formation, in which the original legal regimes and norms re-regulate a group of separate social relations connected by a single subject, and here there is a mixed nature of legal regulation. It is in order to effectively implement, protect, protect the rights and interests of a minor, to regulate legal relations with his participation, that the question is raised about the formation and development of a new branch of law, that is, a complex branch — juvenile law. Through this branch there is a connection of heterogeneous legal material on a subject and target sign, it is carried out.

Prevention of Juvenile Crime in the Changing World Order

The article deals with the issues of international legal cooperation of states in prevention of juvenile crime. It notes that one of the most important rights of children in the area of combating juvenile crime is the right of children to be protected from crime and its harmful consequences. The world community and individual states need to prevent children from coming into contact with criminals who have a particularly negative impact on children, taking into account their special needs related to age and development. The prevention of juvenile delinquency should be aimed at preventing juvenile involvement in criminal or other anti-social activities. The most effective way to prevent juvenile delinquency is to help children and their families.

Criminal Justice in Respect of Minors in Russia

The article considers the problems that arise during the use of juvenile technologies in criminal proceedings in cases involving minors, as well as the difficulties that arise in court during criminal proceedings related to the lack of a legal framework for juvenile justice and attempts to create it as a system of various institutions interacting with each other.