Levitska L. Prevention of violent crimes against juveniles in Ukraine.

The thesis is devoted to the vital problems of criminological prevention of violent crimes against juveniles and definition of their features. The law questions on essence, content and peculiarities of violence against juveniles are researched, general and special factors determining violent criminality are studied, as well as the problems of prevention of violent crimes against juveniles and the ways of their solving. There are propositions and recommendations on improvement of law applying activity. The theses also includes recommendations to legislator on improvement of criminal procedure of Ukraine concerning inclusion of procedural guarantees of protection of rights and legal interests of juveniles suffered from crimes in general and violent ones in particular in the Criminal procedural Code, and also improvement of criminal legislation of Ukraine concerning the single interpretation of the notion "juvenile".