Ensuring the rights of minors involved in the commission of a crime

Introduction. The problem of ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of minors involved in the commission of a crime is a priority area of state protection due to the fact that this category of citizens is deprived of the opportunity to fully protect their rights and freedoms because of their moral and psychological immaturity and is in need of an increased level of guarantees from the state. The legal regulation of the protection of the rights of minors, taking into account the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and international legal norms, is primarily aimed at ensuring their safety from adverse effects on their psyche, especially through criminal encroachments. These principles of state protection continue to apply in the case of a minor’s committing a crime under the influence of elders. The purpose of the study is to eliminate the existing issues and ambiguities that arise during criminal proceedings on crimes with the involvement of a minor and to formulate proposals for improving the legislative framework and law enforcement practice in the direction of ensuring the implementation of the procedural rights of minor participants. In the course of the study, such methods of cognition as formal legal in the form of a study of the norms of law, specifically sociological and comparative legal ones were applied.