Dubina O. Legal mechanisms for the protection of the rights of minors in proceedings on administrative offenses

The dissertation is devoted to the legal mechanisms for the protection of the rights of minors in proceedings in cases of administrative offenses: the specifics of the application of administrative legal personality to minors are determined, the place of government institutions in the process of ensuring the rights of minors is characterized; the principles of protection of the rights of minors who are prosecuted for committing administrative offenses were investigated; the state of protection of the minor’s rights during the application of measures of administrative responsibility, the issuance of resolutions on the imposition of administrative fines and the release of minors from responsibility for committing administrative offenses is considered. The stages of the formation of the legal framework for the protection of the rights of minors in proceedings in cases of administrative offenses are determined. The relevance of the research topic lies in the fact that currently in Ukraine there is no document of strategic importance that would establish the principles and guarantees of the protection of the rights of minors who are prosecuted for committing administrative offenses. In addition, certain provisions of the Code of Ukraine on administrative offenses are characterized by the absence of clear criteria and approaches to determining the status of a minor. The relevance of scientific intelligence can be seen in the fact that, systematizing the research output on the rights of minors, it is possible to single out the main patterns of the theoretical development of the regulatory and legal framework on the rights of the child: 1) creation of a legal framework on the issues of ensuring the rights of minors as a legal, political and historical achievement and legal concept; 2) theoretical study of the rights of minors as an element of legal protection at the international level; 3) analysis of the rights of a minor as an element of a person’s legal status and tools for their protection at all stages of proceedings in cases of administrative offenses.