THE VALUE AND NATURE OF DECISIONS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Abstract

Any kind of practical activity can be considered as the process of preparation, adoption
and implementation of decisions. A general definition is the solution is given in the
Great Soviet Encyclopedia: "Decision is one of the essential moments of volitional action,
consisting in the choice of target actions and ways of its implementation. Volitional action
involves a preliminary sense of purpose and means of action, prior to the actual action,
mental discussion of the reasons that speak for or against its implementation, etc., This
process ends with a decision". It goes without saying that the decision in the criminal
process should be considered as a product of deliberate human activity. An important role
in making correct and timely procedural decisions plays the identity of the person making
the decision, the totality of social qualities and individual properties which it possesses