An analysis of the socio-legal and information technology conditionality of the criminalization of fraud in the field of computer information and some qualification problems is presented. The study made it possible to establish that the social and legal conditionality of the criminal law protection of information and economic security is a consequence of the development of the digital economy in the modern world. Information and technological factors of conditionality, in turn, are associated with the formation of the information society. In the light of new objective patterns, it is necessary to change the paradigm of criminal law protection in relation to property and focus on the protection of property and other economic relations in the field of information and communication technologies from illegal interference. It is concluded that the poorly formulated legislative norm of Art. 1596 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation contradicts the traditional concept of “fraud”, as a result of which various problems arise, ranging from searching for signs of deception in the composition of fraud in the field of computer information, ending with the distinction between this composition and other elements of crimes, including computer ones. It is noted that most researchers do not support the introduction of a special composition of fraud in the field of computer information. Consistent investigation of the crime under Art. 1596 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation leads to the idea of the uselessness of this composition in the current criminal law

computer information fraud, computer fraud, cyber fraud, computer information, computer crimes

Petryakova Lyudmila Aleksandrovna – Teacher of the Department of Criminal Law Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); Competitor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Institute of State and Law, Baikal State University (11, Lenin st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0003-1416-9977, ResearcherID: ABC-1156-2021, SPIN-код: 3607-4003, RSCI AuthorID: 1028589, e-mail: poimanowa@mail.ru

Petryakova L. A.  Social'no-pravovaya i informacionno-tekhnologicheskaya obuslovlennost' kriminalizacii i problemy kvalifikacii moshennichestva v sfere komp'yuternoj informacii [Socio-legal and information-technological conditions of criminalization and problems of qualification of fraud in the sphere of computer information] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2023, no 3(102), pp. 63–69. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2023.3.63.

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