Protection by the government and security support for the parties of modern criminal process in Russia: Problems and perspectives

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the government protection and security support for the parties of modern criminal process in the Russian Federation. The party of criminal process should feel safe from possible criminal encroachments caused by the execution of civic duty at any stage of the proceedings. The state, in turn, shall ensure the protection of life, health, property, honor and dignity of people regarding their involvement in the criminal proceedings. Evaluation of the implementation status of measures of government protection of the parties of the Russian criminal proceedings, promoting justice, proves the measures to be sufficient and relevant to current conditions. Nevertheless, there are some gaps in legislation regulation and some complexity of law enforcement in this area. In this regard, the authors identified the main directions to solve actual problems in government protection and security support for the parties of modern criminal process in the Russian Federation on the theoretical, legislative and law enforcement levels. The authors of this article have investigated the positive developments and existing problems in this sphere, using the comparative-legal and statistical methods.