criminal justice

The article discusses mediation as one of the forms of restorative justice. Mediation is a modern way of responding to unlawful behavior without resorting to court. This approach promotes a balance of interests between society, the victim, and the offender. It is noted that mediation in criminal proceedings has a positive aspect associated with reducing the judicial workload, reducing the costs of maintaining convicted individuals.

Annotation. The article examines the problematic issues of the implementation of the institution of the jury trial in Ukraine, the current state of the implementation of criminal justice by the jury trial, the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the domestic legislative mechanism of the activity of the jury trial, ways of improving the national legal system within the limits of the implementation of justice by the jury trial, and the possibility of implementing foreign experience in reforming the judicial system in Ukraine.

In the article the historical aspects of criminal procedure in Ukraine from customary law to date. The peculiarities of the legal system in judiciary different periods, focus on basic criminal procedural legislation, which operated in Ukraine in different times and contributed to the development and adoption of modern criminal procedure law.