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Internet And Criminal Law: de lege lata and de lege ferenda

Авторы:

Pavel A. Larionov

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Тип статьи: Юриспруденция

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Для цитирования:

Pavel A. Larionov ‘Internet and Criminal Law: de lege lata and de lege ferenda’, Ural Journal of Legal Research, 2021, No. 4. pp. 46-52. DOI 10.34076/2658_512X_2021_4_46

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Аннотация:

The Article describes general approach to the Internet as the element of crimes included into basic and aggravated variations of several criminal acts. The Author highlights weak points of equating social danger of crimes committed on the Internet with the ones committed using mass media and suggests point out the need of more subtle way of treating the cyberspace by means of criminal law. In particular, the legislator is invited to develop an individualized approach to each specific crime committed on the Internet, developing the boundaries of criminalization in relation to the provision or dissemination of illegal information in cyberspace, quantitative and qualitative criteria for victims of such unlawful attacks. These proposals are considered by the author in relation to practical examples of imputation of qualified elements of crimes provided for in art. 128.1, 242, 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, for each of which the nature and degree of public danger varies. Thus, the article puts forward a logical thesis that the provision of pornographic information, committed via the Internet, to only one victim may indicate the insignificance of the encroachment. At the same time, the dissemination on the Internet of calls to carry out terrorist activities, when received by even one person, reasonably seems sufficient to qualify the relevant actions as criminal. Based on the described difference in the nature of the information disseminated, as well as based on some criminological and technical features of cyberspace, the legislator is invited to build a more elegant detailed policy regarding the Internet, getting rid of the confusion of the public danger of encroachments committed in it with the public danger of similar acts committed using the media.

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Ключевые слова:

criminal law, the Internet, cyberspace, distribution materials of pornographic nature, mass media, social danger

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