Juvenile justice: certain aspects of its understanding

Abstract

The article is devoted to the concept of justice for children. Doctrinal provisions on the understanding of juvenile justice in a broad and narrow aspect are considered. It has been studied that juvenile justice will make it possible to create the best environment for children, to protect their rights and interests. It has been established that juvenile justice covers children on the one hand, and an extensive system of public authorities on the other, whose functional duty is to protect and ensure the rights and interests of children.
 It is considered that juvenile justice covers a certain category of persons under the age of 18, namely children (minors and minors) who are at risk or in conflict with the law, as well as children in contact with the law - child victims of delinquency. , children witnesses of a criminal offense. Equally important is ensuring the rights and interests of children in need of state protection and support.
 It is investigated that the subject of justice for children are bodies and services whose activities are aimed at protecting and ensuring the rights of children, special institutions and institutions of social protection for children. An important role is given to the improvement of law enforcement and judicial systems in the aspect of juvenile justice. It is emphasized that the effective functioning of juvenile justice requires the interaction and coordination of its subjects. Therefore, it is necessary that the system of subjects of justice for children be clear with the definition of the competence of each of the subjects, stable, and have a coordinating center.
 It has been established that the system of juvenile justice subjects needs further reform. First of all, this concerns the problems of reforming the child-friendly justice system. After all, today the specialization of judges authorized to conduct criminal proceedings against minors can be considered only as additional functional powers. It is also noted that the institute of juvenile prosecutor's office is at the stage of formation and formation taking into account its functions and tasks.