prosecution

The article outlines that the norms of the current Criminal Code of Ukraine provide options for the possible post-criminal behavior of a person who has committed a criminal offense, which represent a legally significant action or inaction, or their combination, and which may subsequently affect the order and features of bringing the offender to criminal liability.

The article is devoted to the problem of determining the essence of criminal prosecution
as an institution of criminal procedural law. , as well as establishing the ratio of prosecution in
criminal proceedings and prosecution. On the basis of the research of the scientific positions of
certain scholars-processualists on the essence of criminal prosecution as a criminal procedural
category, it was concluded that criminal prosecution is the leading independent function of