EXTRAMARITAL UNION WITH A JUVENILE, AS A SPECIFIC FORM OF CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF MINORS

Abstract

All modern criminal legislations in the incrimination system pay special attention to the protection of personal property in general (human rights and freedoms), and among them the protection of the personality of children, i.e. juveniles, stands out. This is also logical because this is a particularly sensitive category of persons whose enhanced criminal law protection is based on relevant universal or regional international standards. In addition to criminal offenses that protect sexual freedom of juveniles through criminal sanctions, the criminal legislation of the countries of the region also distinguishes specific criminal offenses that protect the personality of juveniles from establishing or maintaining an extramarital union or extramarital relationships that also endanger or violate sexual freedom in a specific way, sexual honor, or sexual dignity of juveniles. The paper analyzes the elements, content, characteristics, and forms or types of manifestation of the criminal offense of extramarital union with a juvenile in the positive criminal legislation of the countries of the former SFRY.