Criminal procedural legal relations: concept and content

The article examines the interrelation of the concepts of public relations, legal relations, criminal procedural legal relations. The article examines scientific approaches in the historical context to the types of legal relations, to the concept of activity, behavior, the relationship between the participants of the legal relationship. Social relations are considered, which, being a kind of relations, are separated from them by two characteristics: a person and their activity. The author examines the material and formal approaches to the concept of legal relations, as well as actual (real) ones that are associated with the real behavior of participants and cognitive (virtual) legal relations. Since phenomena can be distinguished from each other by their structure, the author defines the content: the composition and structure of the legal relationship. The article examines the distinctive features of the procedural legal relationship, and also focuses on the general and different criminal procedural relations from public relations and legal relations in general.