Plashovestkyy O. On criminal age disparity

The thesis is devoted to the particularities of criminal age disparity research. There are analyzed the key approaches to the definition and notion of individual’s age. The author explores the evolution of the legislation regarding the criminal’s age. Besides, it is established that the evolution of criminal legislation on individual’s age has deep roots. Furthermore, the author analyses the development of the legislation on victim’s age. Also, thesis covers particularities of periodisation and criminal notion of an age of discretion. The author examines the particularities of the age as a feature of a special criminal. At the end, the author conducts a research on the criminal determination of victim’s age. It is defined that victim’s age is an essential feature of a victim that characterises a calendar period of his psychophysiological state and plays a vital role in a classification of a crime.