Consensus Justice in Criminal Cases: Innovations of the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Occupation: Senior Researcher, Department of Foreign Constitutional, Administrative, Criminal Law and International Law
Affiliation: Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 8

Pages

50-58

Abstract

The article announces the vectors of adaptation of mechanisms of private law regulation in Criminal and criminal procedure Law. Within the framework of a comparative approach, the thesis is put forward for discussion on the formation in the jurisdictions of the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States of a new model of the administration of justice in criminal cases, aimed at reaching a "consensus" between the subjects of public law relations - the defense and prosecution sides - on the "cost" of the crime and the resulting " benefit "from the consequences of "paying" such for a particular party. This model of regulation the conflict, which has a high dispositiveness for Criminal Law and criminal procedure, allows the state (represented by the bodies conducting the criminal process), in exchange for the speedy achievement of the goals of justice and procedural economy, to “propose to the “defendant” of the criminal case (suspect, accused and sometimes defendant) certain advantages. The author considers it possible to apply the definition of “consensus justice” to the model within which “contracts” of a private law nature are concluded, discussed and executed. When submitting the material, the aim was not to highlight the approaches to the corresponding transformations in all, without exception, the jurisdictions of the countries participating in the Commonwealth of Independent States integration association. The author limited the subject of comparative analysis to innovative in time and space mechanisms for regulating "consensus justice", the approbation of which is already provided for by the criminal and (or) criminal procedure legislation of the Russian Federation, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Uzbekistan. The provisions and conclusions accumulated in the article reflect the position of the author, they are not indisputable and can cause discussion.

Keywords

“consensus justice”, Criminal Law, criminal procedural law, contract, agreement, concliation, “plea bargaining”, pre-trial cooperation agreement, business persons, Comparative Law

Received

27.10.2020

Publication date

14.09.2021

Number of characters

28646

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GOST	Semykina O. "Consensus Justice" in Criminal Cases: Innovations of the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2021. – Issue 8 C. 50-58 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520012403-4-1 (circulation date: 17.02.2025). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520012403-4
MLA	Semykina, Olga ""Consensus Justice" in Criminal Cases: Innovations of the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States." Gosudarstvo i pravo 8 (2021):50-58. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520012403-4
APA	Semykina O. (2021). "Consensus Justice" in Criminal Cases: Innovations of the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Gosudarstvo i pravo (8), pp.50-58 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520012403-4

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