Techniques of rehabilitation justice as a means of special-criminological prevention of violent crimes against under-aged family members

Abstract

Objective: to view the necessity and appropriateness of using the techniques of rehabilitation justice as a means of special-criminological prevention of violent crimes against under-aged family members. Methods: a system of general scientific and private scientific methods. Results: The article views the issues of implementation of rehabilitation techniques (mediation) in legal procedures, including investigating and cognizance of violent crimes committed in families against under-aged children, as well as their appropriateness and limits of application. The authors conclude that rehabilitation programs as such should perform the function of criminal justice, i.e., to react to a crime. The main tasks of using mediation in the Russian criminal procedure should be not substituting the official criminal court procedure, but supplementing it. The main form concerning these types of crimes should be informal mediation between the victim and the offender. Scientific novelty: The article views the issues of rehabilitation justice techniques as a means of special-criminological prevention of violent crimes against under-aged family members. Their essence is revealed. The issues of limits of their application in the investigation and court practice are discussed. Practical significance: The conclusions formulated in the article can be used in scientific, law-enforcement practice and in education.

Keywords

• violence in the family
• under-aged children
• rehabilitation justice
• mediation
• rehabilitation techniques
• criminal court procedure
• public courts
• offender
• criminal-procedural code of the russian federation