LEGAL REGULATION, FOREIGN EXPERIENCE, ADMINISTRATIVE AND CRIMINAL ASPECTS CRIMINALIZATION OF ACTIONS RELATED TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST A CHILD

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of protecting a child from sexual violence by criminal legal means, namely: by criminalizing unlawful acts in accordance with international principles, directives and framework decisions of the European Union. To achieve this goal, general scientific and special scientific research methods were used, in particular formal-logical, statistical, systematic, comparative-legal methods. The works of the scientists who were engaged in this topic were analyzed. Within the framework of research, a legal analysis of international norms (conventions, directives, draft decisions of the Euroepan Union), ECHR decisions aimed at protecting rights of the child from sexual violence and their implementation in the new paradigm of the national criminal law was carried out. In the article, the analysis of the legislative framework for the protection of children rights and a new version of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is presented, which criminalizes acts of sexual nature against a child, the responsibility for distribution of porn content among minors (production and circulation of pornography, access to child pornography, etc) is strengthened). The importance of receiving the services of international consultants in the field of protection and observance of children’s rights during the war and in the post-war period was noted.

Keywords: sexual violence; criminalization; child pornography; sexual education; international norms.