CRIMINALIZATION OF ACTS COMMITTED USING MASS MEDIA AND (OR) INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Antipov A.I.
Saint Petersburg university of the Ministry of internal affairs of Russia, (Saint Petersburg, Russia), adjunct Department of criminal law.
Annotation:
In this paper,examines the changes in criminal legislation that have occurred since the entry into force of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation and related to the use of mass media and (or) information and telecommunications networks in the commission of crimes, and concludes that it is necessary to adopt a unified scientific approach to criminalization and penalization of acts committed using mass media and (or) information and telecommunications networks. The purpose of the article is to study the relationship between the introduction of certain changes in the text of the criminal law and changes in public relations, in the context of which these changes occurred. The subject of research in the article is the norms of the Russian criminal legislation regulating the issues of responsibility for committing acts using the media and information and telecommunications networks. The theoretical proposals of this study can be applied in law-making activities, in particular, to justify the criminalization of acts committed using the media and (or) information and telecommunications networks, and can also be used in the process of professional training and retraining of law enforcement officers.
Keywords:
mass media; information and telecommunication networks; the Internet; criminalization of acts.
