Judge, Higher court in Valjevo
Received: 1 May 2022
Accepted: 13. May 2022
UDK: 343.143/.144-028.26(497.11)
343.12-053.6(497.11)
Pages: 59-75
doi: https://doi.org/10.47152/rkkp.60.2.2
In numerous criminal proceedings, there is an increasing need in Serbia to examine children and juveniles as victims or as witnesses. Having in mind their age, their maturity, the examination of these categories of participants in criminal proceedings requires specially trained people - officials who will contact them from their first appearance either in the police, in the public prosecutor’s office or in court. And for their additional protection in criminal proceedings, the legislator recognized the need to examine these vulnerable categories of participants in criminal proceedings can be done with the use of technical means - through audio-visual communication, which provides additional security for children and juveniles, so it is most important by legal regulations on criminal matters, he officially prescribed this possibility. During the 21st century, the state of Serbia has technically equipped all higher courts with special rooms and audio-visual communication systems. In this paper, we pointed out the most important international and domestic regulations related to the protection of victims and are especially important for the protection of children in criminal proceedings, the way in which the use of audio-visual communication is regulated in the most important domestic criminal regulations. We also pointed out some cases from practice in which the examination of the injured – children and minors through audio-visual connection was applied.
KEY WORDS: criminal proceedings, children, victims, witnesses, audiovisual connection
