Romantsova S. Prevention of sexual violence against children in Ukraine

The dissertation deals with the comprehensive research of topical issues of prevention of sexual violence against children in Ukraine. The criminological content of the concept of sexual violence against children is determined and the expedience of its division into legal and medical forms is substantiated. The criminological characteristic of criminal manifestations of sexual violence against children as well as persons committed them was carried out. The general characteristic of children-victims of sexual violence is given. The significance of the development of the organizational and legal principles of the prevention of sexual violence against children at the system level is grounded. The complex of general social measures in the socio-pedagogical, socio-medical, socioeconomic, socio-psychological and cultural-educational spheres of life of Ukrainian society is generalized. Measures to improve the special criminological prevention of sexual violence against children are elaborated. The victimological model to prevent child sexual abuse is presented.