TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Section 2Administrative standards and procedures— Special course “Organization and tactics of fighting crimes committedby minors” intended to explore issues related to the operationalsearchfeatures of crimes committed by juveniles, organizational andtactical principles of detection, uncovering and prevention of crime, aswell as operational search activities and preventive effect on minors.— “Developmental Psychology” intended to train officers of the criminalmilitia for children in the periodization of mental development inhuman ontogeny, cognitive features of a personality, age patterns ofmental development during adolescence, especially the emotionaland volitional personality, age-specific activity of minors.— “Conflict management” intended to examine main issues of overcomingprofessional psychological difficulties under conflict conditions,train employees to prevent and resolve conflicts and thus to ensuresuccessful solution of assignments. The purpose of this discipline isthe study of:••••••methodological principles of conflict management as appliedscientific discipline, psychological content, classification, structureand dynamics of conflicts;science-based areas of applied research, analysis and evaluationof the role of social conflicts, as well as methods and means toaddress them;specific factors and course of conflicts.In addition, the study of conflict management enables to train to:analyze conflicts, diagnose their development in a constructiveor destructive direction;apply psychological methods and means of resolving conflicts,including in relation to minors;use self-analysis and self-esteem, control and adjust their ownmental health in conflict situations of professional nature.•— “Legal pedagogics", which studies main characteristics of juridicaland legal reality when working with children for criminal militia units.The subject-matter "Preventive pedagogics: working with children"deals with the prevention of deviant behavior of minors; characterizationof children; working with risk groups; special principles of modernsecurity-and-protection prevention; activities of criminal militia forchildren and use of preventive pedagogy in the regions of Ukraine.103