Criminal Appellate Proceedings through the Prism of a Social Project: Synergy of the Society’s Request and Legislative Regulation

Abstract

Public relations, developing in the process of judicial decisions reviewing in criminal cases on appeal, arise on the basis of criminal procedure law rules with great socio-projective potential, which means activities aimed to create specific images of the future and certain details of programs and plans being developed that often result in a new or modernized social object with an original mechanism and unique means of regulation of public relations. The institution of criminal appellate proceedings has been formed in the process of a long evolution, during which many options for reviewing court decisions were tested and rejected. It also acts as an object of social design, which will help ensure the effectiveness of law enforcement and implementation of the objective of criminal proceedings, enshrined in Article 6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. As the result of designing appeal proceedings in criminal cases, a set of scientifically grounded functional proposals can be developed. They can have a positive impact on the review in the court of appeal, since the latter should be able to satisfy the social interest (need) of interested parties, meaning not the satisfaction of the appeal, but the administration of justice in the full sense of the word.