Markovicheva E.V. The evolution of Russia's criminal procedural policy pertaining to juvenile offenders: from Statute of Criminal Procedure to the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation

Abstract: This article seeks to shed light on the main stages of the evolutional path of development of Russia's criminal procedural policy with regards to juvenile offenders in the context of the need to study the historical experience in devising possible future directions of improving the modern juvenile criminal court procedure. For many centuries, in Russia along with many other European countries the age was not a basis for creating a separate order of criminal court procedure. Substantial progress in this area was made in the second part of the 19th century with the enactment of the Statute of Criminal Court Procedure. Further development of criminal court procedure with regards to juveniles in Russia was difficult and controversial, and was defined by the priorities of the criminal and criminal procedural policy of one or another time period. The author proposes to look at the evolution of criminal court procedure pertaining to juveniles in Russia through four main stages. As a starting point, the author proposes the review of the judicial reform of 1864. 

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