This article is devoted to the study of the negative aspects of the impact of the Internet on the life and health of persons who have not reached the age of majority in Russia (that is, the age of 18), as well as the criminal law and forensic possibilities of countering this. In the article, the authors goes by the types of information that are legally prohibited for distribution among minors in the Russian Federation. Having analyzed the types of this prohibited information, the authors identified exactly those types that can threaten the life and health of children. The article examines the problematic aspects of familiarizing minors with such information on the Internet, analyzes the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provide for criminal liability for the distribution of this information on the Internet. The practical aspect of this study is expressed in the analysis of the issues of qualification of such crimes, their differentiation with similar elements of administrative offenses. As a result of the analysis of these criminal law norms, the authors have identified a number of gaps that need to be filled. In this regard, in order to increase the effectiveness of the criminal law struggle against the negative impact of the Internet on the life and health of minors, some amendments to the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are proposed. The article also analyzes the forensic aspects applicable to this topic, namely, it examines some features and problems of identifying, disclosing and investigating crimes committed against minors with the use of the Internet. The author's conclusions and suggestions on this matter are expressed.

The authors examine the specific features of criminal law assessment of involvement in prostitution and the organization of this activity through the use or the threat of violence. At the beginning, they stress the urgency of counteracting the social phenomenon of prostitution, analyze the very concept of «prostitution», its debatable and problematic aspects, because it is impossible to offer a correct qualification of criminal actions connected with prostitution (crimes under Art. 240 and 241 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) without determining the boundaries of providing sexual services specifically referring to the term «prostitution». It is concluded that the key problem for determining the scope of sexual actions described by the term «prostitution» is the lack of an official definition of this term in Russian legislation as well as a wide variety of services in the modern sex industry. The authors state that the understanding of prostitution as a historical social phenomenon as a situation when a woman provides sexual services to different men by performing sexual acts with them for previously discussed material compensation is outdated and does not reflect the multiple dimensions of modern prostitution. While researching the issues of qualifying criminal acts connected with prostitution and involving the use or the threat of violence within the framework of this article, the authors have analyzed the work of both Russian and foreign scholars and studied examples of investigation and court practice. They examine the problems of legal assessment of criminal law categories «violence» and «the threat of using violence» regarding publically dangerous actions connected with the involvement in prostitution and the organization of this activity. The authors present the criteria of differentiating between corpus delicti where such actions are criminally punishable and other corpus delicti, as well as the cases that require qualification for multiple crimes. The results of this research allowed the authors to work out and present recommendations on qualifying criminal actions connected with prostitution and involving the use of the threat of violence.

The subject of the study is the professional work of the preliminary investigation bodies aimed at finding and forming an evidence base in the investigation of crimes related to drug trafficking. The object of the study is the social relations developing in the field of countering illicit drug trafficking. The statistical method of the study showed that the number of these crimes does not cease to grow. According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in January 2023, an increase in registered crime was recorded by 1.1%, due to a certain extent to an increase in the registration of facts of the sale of narcotic drugs by 42.2%. Cybercrime rates increased by 14.2%. Drug sales using information and telecommunication technologies were increased by 85.1%. The authors focused on the establishment of circumstances that are subject to verification and evaluation in terms of the admissibility of evidence for a successful investigation of such crimes, studied methods of contactless drug sales, as well as preventive measures aimed at combating drug crime. The conducted research allowed us to come to the conclusion that the fight against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, regardless of the method of committing a crime (direct or contactless), should be carried out taking into account the entire complex of operational investigative, criminal procedural measures aimed at identifying and exposing drug traffickers by distributing "bookmarks". We will not allow a formal approach to finding and securing evidence for such crimes in order to ensure the effectiveness of criminal prosecution.