OCCASIONS AND THE BASES OF APPLICATION OF MEASURES OF SOCIAL SUPPORT OF THE PROTECTED PERSONS IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Task. Support of process of proof of criminal case by ensuring safe participation increases efficiency of establishment of the circumstances listed in Art. 73 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. Protection of participants of production on criminal case, besides, is a guarantee of realization of the rights and legitimate interests of the personality in the sphere of criminal legal proceedings. Process of application of security measures and measures of social support of the persons who are involved in criminal legal proceedings is followed by existence of complex and interindustry problems. The beginning of realization and application of this process is the prerequisites (occasions and the bases) established by the law which are regulated as the Federal law № 119-FZ «About the state protection of the victims, witnesses and other participants of criminal legal proceedings», and the relevant resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. In this regard, as an important task serves elimination of legal contradictions and terminology of the different legal acts regulating the same process - the state protection of the personality in criminal trial. Methodology. The author of the article used various research methods: induction, deduction, generalization, abstraction, prediction, modeling, functional-structural analysis, and systematic and logical methods. Conclusions. In the course of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: 1. It is necessary to expand the circle of reasons for applying the security measures listed in art. 19 «Procedure for the application of social support measures». Another reason should be a statement about causing property damage to the protected person. 2. It is advisable to supplement the content of Art. 19 of the Law № 119-FZ with a new part 3.1 of the following content «3.1 - establishing the fact of death or injury to the protected person directly by the body deciding on the implementation of security measures». The possibility of subsequent use. The obtained results can be used to improve the legislation of the Russian Federation with regard to the application of security measures and measures of social support to persons participating in criminal proceedings; continuation of scientific research in the field of developing scientifically based mechanisms for ensuring the rights of protected individuals against unlawful actions in connection with participation in a criminal case. The practical significance of the results obtained is expressed in the possibility of using them in investigative and judicial activities. Social significance. The obtained results are aimed at optimizing the legislative regulation of criminal procedural relations and increasing the legal and social security of persons participating in criminal proceedings. The value of the results is due to the presence in it of posing a problem that is essential for improving the level of social protection of victims, witnesses and other persons assisting justice.