Sotskov F.N. Civil action in criminal proceedings: problems of combination

Abstract: The subject of the article includes the problems of civil action realization in criminal procedure. The object of the article includes the social relations appearing in the process of combination of criminal and civil procedures. The urgency of the issue consists in the ambiguity of legal practice, complicated by civil action in criminal procedure, which is rich in legislative gaps of combination of criminal and civil procedures in the sphere of protection of defendants' rights from claims. The author pays special attention to the fact that in practice the questions arise about the impact of civil claim in criminal proceedings on court decision in determining the punishment in case of conviction of a crime constituting the basis for the complaint.The methodology of the research is based on the modern achievements of epistemology. The author uses the general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), the traditional legal methods (the formal-logical method), and the methods used in the sociological research (statistics, expert opinions, etc.).The author makes an attempt to provide the suggestions about the enhancement of procedural legislation in the sphere of civil action in criminal procedure by means of the logical and the empirical methods. The author comes to the conclusion about the necessity to abolish civil action in criminal proceedings.

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