Sexual Crimes Against Children: to Judge or to Treat?

Th is paper is devoted to problems related to the choice of methods of coercion on persons convicted of sexual assault against children. Th e author pays special attention to the current misalignment of medical and legal standards in the defi nition of pedophilia and responsibility for sexual crimes against minors committed by juveniles. Th e paper presents the medical and legal norms that must be aligned by use of examples.

Tkachenko A. A., Shishkov S. N. Sudebno-psikhiatricheskaia ekspertiza po opredeleniiu rasstroistv seksual’nykh predpochtenii v svete Federal’nogo zakona ot 29.02.2012 № 14-FZ «O vnesenii izmenenii v Ugolovnyi kodeks Rossiiskoi Federatsii i otdel’nye zakonodatel’nye akty Rossiiskoi Federatsii v tseliakh usileniia otvetstvennosti za prestupleniia seksual’nogo kharaktera, sovershennye v otnoshenii nesovershennoletnikh»: Informatsionnoe pis’mo [Forensic psychiatric expert examination to determine disorders of sexual preference in the light of the Federal law dated 29.02.2012 N14-FL “On amendments to the criminal code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in order to strengthen responsibility for crimes of a sexual nature committed against minors”: an Information letter]. Moscow, FSI SRCFP named after V. P. Serbsky the Ministry of health and social development of Russia Publ., 2012. 10 p. (In Russian)