Sexual crimes against children: to judge or to treat?
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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.
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sexual crimes, pedophile, juvenile offenders, sexual aggression, anomalies of sexual behavior
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