Distinguishing Lewd and Lascivious Acts from Related Crimes Against Minors’ Sexual Immunity

Abstract

The article deals with the criminal law norms related to the crime provided for by Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The authors estimate judicial practice and outline disputable issues of correlation of the given norms and offer the criteria to distinguish lewd and lascivious acts from related crimes

Keywords

• Lewd and lascivious acts
• classification of crimes
• criteria to distinguish related crimes
• juveniles
• sexual immunity