Crimes Against Sexual Inviolability and Sexual Freedom of Minors: Historical and Comparative Legal Analysis

The object of the study is criminal law relations arising in connection with the commission of crimes against the sexual inviolability and sexual freedom of minors. The purpose of the article is to investigate and clarify the specifics of the development of criminal liability for crimes against the sexual inviolability and sexual freedom of minors in our country and some foreign countries. In the course of the research, the dialectical method of scientific cognition was used, as well as a number of private scientific methods: historical, logical, regulatory, etc. A historical analysis of responsibility for such acts in our country was car-ried out, as a result of which it was revealed that such crimes were not isolated into a separate group of crimes, but were considered in the total mass of criminal acts. Regarding European countries, it was noted that it was only by the beginning of the 20th century that awareness of the need to protect the sexual inviolability of minors came. The analysis of the criminal legislation of foreign countries on the indicated topics was carried out, which allowed the authors to conclude that in most of them increased responsibility for socially dangerous acts of the analyzed category was established.