Access to a lawyer is an important guarantee of the right to a fair trial, the right to defence, the presumption of innocence and other fundamental rights. In Ukraine, representation in courts and public authorities is carried out exclusively by lawyers (advocates)[1]. Article 213 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (CPC) obliges the official who carried out…
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Dmytro Yagunov, Maryna Demura: Domestic Violence in Ukraine. Policing and the Impact of the War
Recently, domestic violence has become an object of special attention by the Parliament, the Government, and the society in general. Therefore, domestic violence could be an attractive object for criminological research in the context of the impact of the War on the society. In 2017, the Criminal Code was supplemented by Article 126-1 according to…
Dmytro Yagunov: Crime Rates in Ukraine and the Impact of the War
In 2022, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies (hereafter – LEA) registered 362636 crimes with corresponding criminal proceedings where the above-mentioned numbers reflect both criminal proceedings with concrete suspects and so-called “factual” criminal proceedings (without concrete suspects). It should be noted that the number of registered crimes even for the period of ten months of 2022…
Albert Yezerov: The Impact of War on Human Rights: Restrictions and Derogations
krainian statehood has existed and transformed for more than ten years in conditions of the Russian armed aggression. Although Ukraine’s institutional system has been constantly tested by political crises and corruption, and traditions of constitutionalism were not well established before the War, the State is a developing constitutional democracy. The political and legal reality that…
Andrii Chernousov: Children in War, or How Russia Kills the Childhood
The Russian Federation continues to involve Ukrainian children in the War violating numerous international standards and treaties. Forced displacement of Ukrainian children remains widespread in territories that are temporarily occupied or under constant shelling. At the same time, there is still no single transparent algorithm or mechanism that allows Ukrainian children deported to Russia to…
Khatia Dekanoidze: Police Reform in Ukraine: Achievements and Failures
The Soviet Union established a deeply corrupt and flawed criminal justice system designed to protect itself. Infiltrated by organised crime, it essentially functioned as a criminal body. Following the Soviet collapse, except for the Baltic states, corruption, clan-based structures, nepotism, and human rights violations persisted in the newly independent republics, mirroring the Soviet framework. It…
Clemens Lorei, Kerstin Kocab: De-Escalation in Everyday Police Operations
Everyday police work encompasses any kind of deployment that police officers handle daily. These tasks include, for example, interventions in cases of domestic violence, handling of traffic crashes and offenses, and various forms of conflict resolution. Violence may be a part of these routine operations: police officers, when necessary, use varying levels of force to…