The study addresses the problem of physical violence in the family, which has become the most relevant in criminology, especially in the period of digitalization. The purpose of the study was to determine the forms of physical violence against vulnerable family members and identify the causes and conditions for violence against women, the elderly, and children in a digital society. The authors consider that vulnerable family members in the republics of the North Caucasus are most in need of protection due to the closeness of the topic of violence to observe traditions and customs. The paper shows the fate of women in extremist families. In a digital society, the threat of violence using the latest technologies is relevant. This type of abuse contains psychological aspects, it is a form of digital violence. Constant pressure in the form of control over social networks, the requirements to instantly call back or answer a message is becoming common in a digital society. The purpose of the study was to identify the factors that determine physical violence against helpless family members in a digital society and to find areas for improving the criminal law on violence against family members. With due regard to the purpose of the study, the determinants of violence against helpless family members are revealed. Based on the study of the factors that trigger physical violence against vulnerable family members, some methods for improving the criminal legislation are proposed. The study is of practical relevance, and its results can be used for combating physical violence against helpless family members and improving legislation on violence against family members.

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Aim: To highlight the increasing importance of environmental criminology in addressing environmental safety challenges in the digital age.Discussion. In the digital age, it is important to shape environmental consciousness and culture through the system of countering environmental crime. To achieve this goal, the foundations of environmental safety should be promoted by attracting new technologies from the digital world. Content analysis of electronic mass media showed that in some regions of the Russian Federation there are environmental crowdsourcing projects, network communities and virtual civil platforms as a corollary of offline (traditional) civil participation. The republics of the North Caucasus need to take into account the positive experience of key regions of Russia, for example, Moscow, in creating digital databases for environmental supervision. Crimes in the field of ecology should be singled out in an independent section of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as a priority area of criminal law policy. The authors propose the improvement of the system of execution of punishments for committing crimes in the field of environmental protection by creating specialised correctional centres for the implementation of punishment against persons who have committed environmental crimes directed at their resocialization.Conclusion. Strengthening state control over the use of the digital space in the regions of the Russian Federation will be facilitated by the formation of environmental justice as an element of improving the general system of combating crime. The effectiveness of such an environmental protection countermeasure system also depends on the quality of research in the field of protecting the natural world, which increases the importance of environmental criminology in the digital age