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Mission and Sections

The Mission of the Journal

The Journal «Judicial authority and criminal process» is a journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the judicial authority and criminal justice areas. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest. Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of judicial authority and criminal process, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.

Sections of the Journal

General provisions of the criminal process

  • The concept, nature and purpose of the criminal process
  • Historical types, shapes and types of the criminal process
  • The criminal process of foreign countries
  • Modern state and tendencies of development of science in the criminal process
  • Legal, scientific, ethical and psychological bases of criminal proceedings
  • The history of the development of the criminal process as a science and as a branch of law
  • The essence of the system, sources of criminal procedural law
  • Mechanism of criminal procedural regulation
  • Criminal procedure form
  • Principles of criminal procedure
  • Criminal procedure guarantees
  • Criminal-procedural functions
  • Criminal prosecution
  • The participants in criminal proceedings
  • Decisions in the criminal process
  • Complaints and petitions in criminal proceedings
  • Measures of criminal procedure coercion

Evidence law

  • The goal of proving
  • The subject of proof
  • The limits of proof
  • Evidence in a criminal case
  • Types of evidence
  • The process of proving

Pre-trial

  • Initiation of a criminal case
  • General conditions of preliminary investigation
  • The investigative actions
  • The attraction of a person as a defendant, and an arraignment
  • The suspension of the preliminary investigation
  • The end of the preliminary investigation

Trial

  • General preparation for trial
  • General conditions of the trial
  • The proceedings and the verdict
  • Special order trial
  • Proceedings in criminal cases under the jurisdiction of the magistrate
  • Production with the participation of jurors
  • Proceedings in the court of second instance
  • The execution of the sentence
  • Review of judgments, rulings and orders of the court, entered into force
  • The criminal proceedings against minors
  • Proceedings on application of compulsory measures of a medical nature
  • Proceedings on criminal cases against separate categories of persons
  • International cooperation in the field of criminal justice

Judicial authority

  • The history of the judicial systems
  • The law on the judiciary
  • Justice: the concept, characteristics, types
  • The principles of justice
  • Forms of specialization in the judicial activities
  • The constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme court of the Russian Federation, Federal courts and courts of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, courts of General jurisdiction and arbitration courts
  • The relationship and interaction of national and supranational jurisdictions
  • Status of judges – the legal and ethical framework
  • The status of the jury and arbitration assessors
  • Organizational support of court activities
  • Judicial community and its bodies

Law enforcement

  • The concept of law enforcement in the context of other types of legal activities
  • The public authorities responsible for law enforcement
  • Goals, objectives, principles of law enforcement
  • Historical, national and foreign experience of law enforcement
  • The police and its role in the detection, prevention, suppression and investigation of crimes against other offenses
  • Organization and legal basis for the functioning of the units performing law enforcement functions in the system of Executive authorities
  • Preliminary investigation, inquiry and operational-search activities, its legal basis and principles
  • The service in the bodies performing law enforcement functions, and professional ethics of their employees

Prosecutorial activities

  • Public Prosecutor's supervision, its concept, objectives and relationship with other law enforcement functions
  • History of the origin and development of the Prosecutor's office
  • The law on Prosecutor's supervision, its history and prospects
  • The Prosecutor's office in legislation and legal practice of foreign States
  • The main tasks and directions of the Prosecutor's supervision
  • The prosecution system of the Russian Federation
  • The service in the Prosecutor's office as a kind of public service and the legal status of its employees

Advocacy

  • International human rights organizations: legal framework, objectives, tasks
  • The legal profession, the concept, purpose, objectives and principles
  • The main function of the bar
  • The organizational forms of lawyers' activity
  • The status of a lawyer
  • Legal ethics
  • The historical and foreign experience of organization and activities of advocacy

Arts and Justice

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