Kurakin A.V., Karpukhin D.V., Ostroushko A.V., Merkushova O.V. —
The Problems of the Legal Improvement of Protection of Children From Inducement to Suicide
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2018. – ¹ 3.
– P. 10 - 26.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0595.2018.3.26282
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/ammag/article_26282.html
Read the article
Abstract: The subject of the research is the effective provisions of the Federal Law No. 149 On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection of July 27, 2006. The aforesaid provisions define the kind of information that could be harmful for children, and establish the procedure of applying enforcement measures for distribution of such information. Legal acts of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation recommend measures for parents to avoid distribution of harmful information among minors. These are the issues that constitute the subject of the present article. The methodological basis of the research involves recent achievements and findings of science. The authors of the article have applied theoretical methods and methods of philosophical research (dialectics, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction) and traditional law methods (formal logic to analyze the contents of the aforesaid provisions). The main conclusion made by the authors as a result of their research is that measures of parental and pedagogical control considerably outstrip criminal penalties for inducement to suicide on the Internet. The main contribution made by the authors of the article is their soundly based and legal research of the mechanisms of state and social control for the purpose of developing a single algorithm of interaction between competent powers and social institutions aimed at prevention of Internet suicidal threats. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the authors offer an integral approach to the problem of teenager suicide by analysing legal measures and developing institutions of social control (parents and teachers) as well as scales and indicators that can be used to establish a single approach paper that would integrate all forms of control for ensuring child security on the Internet.