CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST THE INFORMATION SECURITY OF MINORS: ANALYSIS, CLASSIFICATION, AND CRIMINAL-LAW RESPONSE MEASURES

The article examines the main parameters characterizing criminal offenses against information security of minors and substantiates the methodology for theoretical and practice-oriented classification of this type of encroachment. The absence in the Kazakh criminal law of an independent group (groups) of criminal offenses related to negative information influence on minors is regarded as a significant gap. Considering the increasing role of the information and communication factor in criminal determination and behavior, the practical feasibility and demand for separating a distinct group (groups) of criminal offenses related to negative information influence on minors are substantiated.

At the same time, the article adopts the position that comparing the concept of «information security» only with the factor of information and communication influence excludes a significant group of criminal offenses of this type from the scope of research and consideration.

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