Investigation of sexual crimes against children

Yuliia  Chornous; Hanna  Nikitina-Dudikova; Olena  Lepei; Anastasiia  Antoniuk; Mariia  Fridman-Kozachenko

Yuliia Chornous National Academy of Internal Affairs.
Hanna Nikitina-Dudikova National Academy of Internal Affairs
Olena Lepei National Academy of Internal Affairs.
Anastasiia Antoniuk University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine
Mariia Fridman-Kozachenko University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

Keywords: juvenile justice, offences against the sexual freedom and inviolability of the child, research actions, preventive measures, justice in Ukraine

Abstract

Through a documentary methodology close to legal hermeneutics, the article reveals the main problematic aspects of the detection, investigation, and combat of crimes against sexual freedom and the inviolability of children, as well as highlights the main positions of the European Court of Rights in this regard. Ukraine is currently actively discussing the prospect of a comprehensive and stable juvenile justice system, so protecting the rights of the child from the usurpation of sexual freedom and inviolability is an important part of ensuring its functioning. The work aims to establish the characteristics of detection, investigation, and prevention of crimes against the freedom and sexual inviolability of the child and, suggest ways to solve the main problems. The result of this work is to identify specific features of the detection, investigation, and combat of crimes against the freedom and sexual inviolability of the child, while determining the importance of investigative and preventive actions considering the psychological characteristics of children, proposing ways to improve the existing system of protection of sexual crimes. It is concluded that the prevention of these crimes requires multidimensional legal and political action.

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Author Biographies

Yuliia Chornous , National Academy of Internal Affairs.

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Professor of Department of Criminalistics and Forensic Medicine, National Academy of Internal Affairs.

Hanna Nikitina-Dudikova, National Academy of Internal Affairs

PhD in Law, Associate Professor of Department of Criminalistics and Forensic Medicine, National Academy of Internal Affairs.

Olena Lepei, National Academy of Internal Affairs.

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of Criminal Procedure, National Academy of Internal Affairs. ORCID ID:

Anastasiia Antoniuk, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

Ph. D. in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminology, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.

Mariia Fridman-Kozachenko, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

Ph. D. in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of criminal procedure and criminology, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.

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