NOTION OF SEXUAL CRIMES IN DOMESTIC CRIMINAL-LEGAL SCIENCE OF THE MIDDLE OF THE ХIХ - THE BEGINNING OF THE ХХ CENTURY
The article touches upon the issue of the notion of sexual crimes in the pre-revolutionary criminal-legal thought of Russia in the middle of the ХIХ - at the beginning of the ХХ century. In this regard, the works of pre-revolutionary legal scholars, which research sexual crimes, are studied, and their classification is given. The author pays attention to the non-compliance of the legislative and scientific classifications of crimes relating to sexual assault, and ascertains the open-mindedness of pre-revolutionary legal scholars’ views on sexual crimes, their characteristic as multi-object crimes in the sphere of sexual life.