The consequence of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 was the introduction of social restrictions, which led to an increase in the number of users of social networks, as well as their activity on the Internet. The involvement of citizens in the digital environment has changed the targets of criminal efforts of the criminals. The public’s fear of the coronavirus was subjected to criminal exploitation, new forms and methods of theft appeared, as a result, the spectrum of crime shifted to the criminal use of information and communication technologies (hereinafter – ICT. The purpose of the study is to analyze the dynamics of the indicators of Russian crime during the pandemic, to assess the adopted criminal-political decisions in terms of adequacy to the changes in crime, to develop on this basis the proposals for criminal law improvement able to increase the consistency of the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and its compliance with the requirements of the criminal-political situation in Russia. The assessment of the sectoral structure consistency in the regulation of criminal liability for committing crimes in the special conditions of a pandemic was used as the main research method. The research was carried out by the authors based on the dialectical method, which made it possible to manage changes in social reality by means of legal response, other scientific methods: sociological, modeling, concrete historical, comparative were applied as well. The results obtained showed that overcoming the negative changes in crime requires adjusting the vector of criminal policy from liberalization towards tightening in relation to crimes committed using ICT. It is proposed to expand the list of aggravating circumstances, limit the use of some mechanisms for terminating criminal liability associated with exemption from it, and review the possibilities of applying conditional conviction to persons who have committed crimes in a pandemic, up to and including refusal of this form of implementation of criminal liability. The formulated new proposals for improving the General Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation restore the consistency of the criminal law and increase the consistency of criminal-political decisions during a pandemic.
In this study, we analyze the current state of child abuse and the role of international organizations in countering this crime. The paper presents a classification of child abuse, paying special attention to digital child abuse (via the Internet and messenger apps). The use of system-structural analysis allowed us to identify the current threats that this crime poses as well as the methods of its prevention. Using general and special scientific methods, we concluded that child abuse is an international crime, facilitated by the use of digital technologies. In this case, only international cooperation can help effectively counteract digital child abuse.
The article deals with the problematic issues related to the use of Big Data technology, as well as the positive and negative factors of the Big Data influence on the personal life of citizens. The authors come to the conclusion that in the absence of the law on the regulation of Big Data, the main obstacle to the abuse of private information of citizens is the Law on personal data. However, legitimate consent to the processing of personal data, their depersonalization, enshrined in the law, do not provide adequate protection of personal data from use by third parties. Therefore, serious study is required on the introduction of criminal liability for the use of personal information of individuals, using the technology of Big Data, which led to the violation of privacy.
The article deals with the problematic issues related to the security of digital technologies in the Russian Federation, as well as the differentiation of the concepts of "computer", "information" and "digital" technologies. The authors come to the conclusion that computer and information security do not provide adequate protection of the digital environment in Russia, which requires serious study of the criminological risks of the introduction of digital technologies and amendments to a number of regulations, including Chapter 28 of the criminal code, both in terms of its name, and in the introduction of a number of new offences providing for criminal liability for unlawful acts that infringe on public relations in the field of security of digital information, technologies, systems and devices.
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