Legislative framework for the protection of minors’ rights in criminal proceedings

The study aims to investigate the role of legislative consolidation of the rights and legitimate interests of minors in criminal proceedings. The relevance of the study is due to the priority policy of the state to protect the rights and legitimate interests of the family, motherhood and childhood, as well as the active preventive work of authorized bodies. Constitutional, as well as sectoral guarantees of minors in criminal proceedings are considered, and the authors’ different points of view on this issue are analyzed. The article analyzes and compares the concept of “minor” in the sectoral legislation of the Russian Federation. Apart from the above, a study of the norms of international law regulating the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of minors and the possibility of their introduction into domestic legislation is performed. A number of factors that allow to refer a person to the category of “minor”, and, consequently, the possibility to benefit from the enshrined rights and guarantees, have been revealed.