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- № 3 2015 Evidence and proving in criminal procedure (part 1)
- Problems of criminal procedure
- The new concept of criminal procedural proving
The new concept of criminal procedural proving
Review
In the article carried critical analysis of modern concepts of criminal procedure proving. Proved discrepancy these concepts for modern mixed models of criminal procedure. Proposed author's concept of criminal procedural proving and justifed advisability of implementing her in modern model of mixed criminal process of Ukraine. The methodological basis of the concept are the theory of cognition, activity, argumentation, interpretation. The concept is based on the form (type) of domestic criminal procedure, which was introduced by the current Criminal procedure code of Ukraine, as well as on the three classical criminal procedural functions: prosecution; protection; judicial consideration and resolving the case (administering justice), that underlie the criminal proceedings and, in particular, of criminal procedural proving.
Proposed that criminal procedural proving as cognitive, practical, legal and mental activity has own external and internal structure. External structural elements of criminal procedural proving that constitute a single indissoluble process: 1) obtaining evidence; 2) using evidence. Internal structural elements of criminal procedural proving are: object, topic, subject, design, objective, means, result. These elements are interdependent. Their essence is due of the type of criminal procedure and criminal procedural functions, based on a procedural interest subject (carriers) these functions, which is based on the respective needs and motivations of criminal procedural proving. Each of the above indicated structural elements of proving has its own characteristics for implementing subjects of proving their functions. Disclosed the content of each of the structural elements of criminal procedural proving and defined his concept.
Keywords: criminal procedural proving, object of proving, design of proving, means of proving, subject of proving, results of proving, stages of proving, evidence.