Reasons and Conditions for Persuading Minors to Commit Suicide Using the Internet

One of the saddest trends of recent times is associated with an increase in suicide cases among children and adolescents. The consequences of informational influence directed at the least protected categories of the Internet audience have signs of mass character. Today, through the use of modern means of communication, crimes against life and health are being committed, which causes irreparable damage, encroaching on national security. Objective of the study: to conduct a criminological analysis of motivated reasons for suicide among minors, such as criminal or driving to suicide. Methodology and methods: the article uses both general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, and the method of interpreting legal norms, which make it possible to more effectively analyze the institutions of criminal law and determine the directions of development of the norms of criminal legal protection of the life and health of minors. Conclusions: as a result of this study, the author has consistently substantiated the conclusion that the measures of a criminal-legal nature aimed at bringing to justice persons who persuade or facilitate the commission of suicide by minors are not enough. Taking into account the factor that the consciousness of children is very fragile, and is especially susceptible to external influence, it is necessary to direct resources, including to provide the necessary criminal-legal protection of childhood conservation, as the main factor in the development and socialization of the future generation.

Criminal Code, criminal responsibility, criminal suicide, teenage suicide, cyberbullying