Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

In the system of criminalistic characteristics the method of committing the crime as an element that contains traces of natural connections with the elements of a crime is very important. Method of the crime commission, although not fully, but to the greatest degree reflects the shape of the symptoms act and the individual characteristics inherent only to it. Method of the crime commission may indicate a physical or mental condition of the offender. Knowledge of the method of the crime commission often allows the investigator to develop a profile of the offender, to determine age, and in the future may serve as a basis for promotion of investigatory and operative and search versions of the investigation. Method of the crime commission is not just a set of volitional acts, and naturally defined, structured system of behavior of the subject, aimed at the preparation, commission and crime concealment. The classification of methods of committing violent crimes against sexual inviolability of people under age, depending on the identity of the criminal offender, namely, the ways of committing these crimes, father, brother, other person who is responsible for the upbringing of underage; a stranger to the child person; group of persons; a serial rapist. It is concluded that information on methods of committing violent crimes against sexual inviolability of underage is a necessary prerequisite for their investigation. In particular, the method of committing violent sexual crimes can be put forward different versions about the identity of the criminal, as for specific ways of committing is characterized by certain mechanisms of formation of traces, the establishment of which is in the process of investigation allow to draw a conclusion about the identity of the criminal (availability of skills, physical abilities, psychological traits). Therefore, the question of the definition of the method of committing violent crimes against sexual inviolability of minors has significant theoretical and practical importance and is the key to the formation of criminological characteristics of these crimes.