JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN: NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND LEGAL ISSUES FOR ITS IMPROVEMENT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of national legislation concerning justice for children. The normative documents aimed at ensuring the rights of the child in the justice system, recommendations for improving national legislation taking into account the UN international standards on the administration of justice for children are analyzed. The norms of international UN standards have been studied in order to bring national legislation into line with them, legal issues of the introduction of the juvenile justice system, which is one of the most important areas of ensuring the rights of the child. It is noted that the introduction of this system will be facilitated by the presence of a special justice system for children, interaction with representatives of the social sphere for the reintegration and rehabilitation of children in conflict with the law. Conclusions have been drawn on the need for public explanatory work on the widespread use of mass media in forming public opinion about the features and advantages of juvenile justice, about negative cases of deprivation of liberty of children, as well as about the positive results achieved by the introduction of alternative types of dispute resolution measures in cases involving children in conflict with the law.