Author

Kosenko A.M.

Title of article

OBJECTIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STAGE OF INITIATING A CRIMINAL CASE: THE QUESTIONS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE

Section

Section 12. The problems of legal science and law enforcement practice: young researchers’ view

Issue, year

1 (43) 2018

Abstract

 In recent years, instead of establishing the presence or lack of sufficient data indicating the elements of a crime at the stage of a criminal case initiation, law enforcement officials establish the circumstances to be proved in a criminal case. At the same time, the criminal procedure legislation is constantly expanding the powers of the investigator, the inquiry officer and the inquiry body. As a result, at the stage of initiating a criminal case, the procedural activity converts into a “surrogate of preliminary investigation”, which contradicts the purpose and essence of the stage under consideration, leads to high economic costs, as well as to increasing the procedural terms of the pretrial stage of the criminal proceedings and reducing the effectiveness of the investigation as a whole. The study and analysis of the goals, objectives and essence of the stage of initiating a criminal case allows to realize that the verification of the crime report should be carried out by establishing legally significant circumstances that influence the process of making the decision on the presence or lack of grounds for initiating a criminal case, basing on the principles of expediency and sufficiency. Such an approach to the verification of crime reports will return the procedural, social and economic significance to the considered stage and that will positively affect the efficiency of the criminal procedure policy of the Russian Federation.

Keywords

 initiating a criminal case; verification of crime report; reporting crime; confession; grounds for initiating a criminal case; reason for initiating a criminal case.

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