prosecution

The article is devoted to the controversial issues of regulatory regulation of the procedure for recognizing a person as a victim in criminal proceedings. Gaps in the regulation of the procedural status of the victim were examined, and conflicts of law were identified that enable the abuse of rights by investigators and prosecutors when deciding whether or not to recognize a person as a victim in criminal proceedings.

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