Usachev Sergey Igorevich Usacheva Ekaterina Anatolievna

The possibilities of information and communication technologies and their impact on society, including the transformation of criminal activity, due to the active use of ICT capabilities by individuals and legal entities, as well as criminals for illegal purposes, are presented. It has been established that the spread of ICTs into everyday life has a number of undeniable advantages, howev-er, along with this, such technologies are increasingly becoming an instrument of criminal activity. The emergence of innovations in the digital environment naturally entails the emergence of new ways of committing crimes. It is concluded that increasing the level of citizen involvement in the use of modern technologies and platforms often produces many vulnerabilities in the digital space that are used by criminals. It has been established that in this regard, countering crimes committed using ICT will be effec-tive only in the case of an integrated approach: studying the mechanism and methods of criminal activity, increasing the level of “computer literacy” of individuals - users of the Internet space, increasing the level of knowledge of law enforcement officers, improving legislation, etc. It has been revealed that modern ICT capabilities directly affect the mechanism of criminal activity. It is concluded that the disclosure, investigation and prevention of crimes committed using ICT requires a full and comprehensive analysis, while the activities of law enforcement agencies will differ significantly for different areas.

information and communication technologies, mechanism of crime, Internet, confidentiality, anonymity, user IP address, TOR browser

Usachev Sergey Igorevich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminalistics, East-Siberian Institute of the MIA of Russia (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664071, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-4306-0535, RSCI AuthorID: 994377, e-mail: ysachef@list

Usacheva Ekaterina Anatolievna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Organization and Methods of Criminal Prosecution, Irkutsk Law Institute (Branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsova st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-4770-1133, RSCI AuthorID: 874860, e-mail: malykhina_ek@mail.ru

Usachev S. I., Usacheva E. A. Informacionno-kommunikacionnye tekhnologii v mekhanizme prestupnoj deyatel'nosti [Information and communication technologies in the mechanism of criminal activity] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2024, no 3(106), pp. 110–117. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2024.3.110 (in Russian)

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