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The article is devoted to the analysis of criminal offences against the will, honour and dignity of a person in the context of modern Ukrainian legislation. The author highlights how the legal regulation of these categories has historically transformed, which has a significant impact on the interpretation and application of criminal law in modern conditions.

The article indicates that the honor and dignity of a person is an important factor and an integral component of his constitutional rights and freedoms. Starting from antiquity, in many normative legal acts such as Roman law, Digests of Justinian, the legislation of Kievan Rus, and other European states, the desire to protect the rights, honor and dignity of privileged social classes, and later also of free people, through the legislative policy of the state, can be traced.