Organizational foundations for countering sexualized violence against minors

The subject of the work is the negative and socially dangerous phenomenon of sexualized violence committed against minors, its specifics and criteria for distinguishing it from sexual violence. The purpose of the work is to formulate and substantiate the organizational foundations for countering sexualized violence committed against minors, describing their significance and relationship with other elements of the federal program for combating sexualized violence. The dialectical method of scientific cognition was used as the main research method, which made it possible to consider the features of the development of the emotional and volitional sphere of a minor's personality, the impact of sexualized violence on it and the harm caused as a result of these actions in their interrelation and interdependence. The application of the comparative legal method made it possible to identify similarities and differences between the institutions of family, education, and criminal and constitutional protection of the child's rights to comfortable and safe conditions of development in the context of the provisions of current legislation. As a result of the application of the formal legal method, shortcomings, problems and contradictions that currently exist in the field of ensuring the moral safety of minors and their protection from sexualized violence have been identified. On the basis of seven MAOU secondary schools A study was organized and conducted in Kaliningrad, which included: introductory conversations between PD staff and students in grades 7-11; anonymous questionnaires on issues of research interest; anonymous psychological counseling based on the results of participation in the study (voluntarily, at the request of underage respondents). The main conclusion of the work is that the author formulated the minimum necessary organizational foundations for countering sexualized violence committed against minors, expressed in specific areas of concentration of legal, organizational and educational efforts.