IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW NORMS ON CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT OF MINORS INTO THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
Keywords:
implementation, international-legal law, underage, criminal law, criminal penalty, criminal liabilityAbstract
The article deals with the implementation of international legal norms on criminal liability and punishment of minors in the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Much attention is paid in the article to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989 and ratified by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1994, since it was for the first time that the child’s rights such as rights to life, name and citizenship, to preserve the individuality, not to be separated from his parents, education and vocational training, to protection from arbitrary and unlawful interference with his personal life, medical care, and also Bod of expression, thought, conscience and religion, association, assembly and other rights, freedoms.
The issues of criminal liability and punishment are addressed in Article 40 of the Convention. In this regard, the author examines in some detail the implementation of the norms of this article in the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The method of scientific controversy and regulatory justification discloses the term “implementation”. The article also widely uses the norms of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other regulatory legal acts.
Upon completion, the author concluded that the criminal law as a whole implemented international standards relating to criminal liability and punishment of minors.Further implementation within the framework of the subject matter should be carried out on the basis of a periodic review of criminal law. Of great importance in this is legal monitoring, within which it is possible to establish legal norms that do not comply with international treaties ratified by Kazakhstan, and also require appropriate implementation into the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including those relating to criminal liability and punishment of minors.