Information And Communication Technologies In Crimes And Crime Prevention

Abstract

The article deals with the criminological analysis of crimes committed with the help of information and communication technologies. At present, such crimes are quite common in Russia and other countries. It is stressed that these criminal attacks have a pronounced trend of growing. For example, from 2017 to 2020 their number increased 5 times, and sometimes law enforcement agencies cannot efficiently combat such crimes. Various approaches to the definition of the term "information and communication technologies" are discussed. Attention is drawn to the fact that information and communication technologies are used by criminals not only in the process of committing crimes encroaching on relations that develop in the sphere of the usual computer information circulation, but also in committing crimes that encroach on other public relations protected by the Russian criminal law. Some measures for crime prevention to be undertaken by law enforcement agencies with the help of information and communication technologies are proposed. It is stated that crimes under discussion provide a criminological picture of modern Russian crime and, above all, that of crime of the nearest future. To prevent such crimes new, non-trivial approaches and counteraction measures are necessary. Such approaches and measures require fundamental research of the above-mentioned criminal encroachments.