Crimes Against the Person Committed Using Information and Telecommunication Technologies (Including the Internet)

Relevance of the article is determined by the consideration of the global problem of cybercrime against the individual. Digital technologies and the Internet, its shadow segment of the Darknet, can be used to carry out many, including violent crimes against the person specified in chapters XVI, XVII and XVIII of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The largest share of such crimes in the structure of criminal assaults against the person is suicide, cyber bullying, inducement to self-harm, sexual crimes against minors, defamation, violation of privacy of personal life, etc. To increase the effectiveness of the fight against virtual crimes against the person, which have become widespread on the Internet, their original characteristics are given.

The purpose of the study is to supplement the theory of criminology with new knowledge about crimes against the person committed using information and telecommunication technologies and the Internet in order to effectively counter them.

Objectives: on the basis of investigative and judicial practice, to identify and characterize crimes against the person committed through information and telecommunication technologies and the Internet.

Methodology. It is represented by a set of general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition, including analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, as well as system-analytical, statistical, documentary, formal legal, formal logical and predictive methods.

The results of the study include a detailed criminological description of the main types of crimes against the person, most often committed using modern Internet technologies; scientific knowledge about the types of crimes that the Internet and digital technologies have become the means of committing is replenished.

Conclusion. The spread of information and telecommunication technologies and the massive "Internetization" of the population have changed the nature and structure of cybercrime, its qualitative and quantitative indicators. Such a rapid evolution of IT crime was instantly reflected in the statistics of certain types of crimes, including criminally punishable acts against a person. The forecast is formulated that this type of cybercrime will be modernized in the future, including through new types of attacks against individual rights and freedoms (life, health, freedom, sexual integrity and sexual freedom, privacy, etc.).

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