UDK 004 Информационные технологии. Компьютерные технологии. Теория вычислительных машин и систем
UDK 343.2 Общая часть уголовного права
The paper addresses the problems of criminal punishment and digitalization, which has a modifying effect on all spheres of public life. The spread of information and communication technologies is a harbinger of significant changes in the institution of criminal punishment. The content and possible results of the digitalization of punishment are an urgent research task of the modern science of criminal law. The purpose of the study is to obtain new theoretical knowledge about the prospects of the modifying effect of digital technologies on the institution of criminal punishment. According to the results of the study, the following conclusions were obtained: 1) in modern conditions, it is possible to identify such areas of punishment transformation in a digital society as changing the system of punishments, digitalization of the appointment and execution of punishment; 2) taking into account the development of «big data» technologies, it seems promising to supplement the criminal law with a new type of punishment – a decrease in the rating of public trustworthiness; 3) digitalization creates conditions for the full implementation of a hybrid model Justice; 4) the creation of a closed loop of the information and telecommunications infrastructure of the punishment execution system (with a built-in messenger, e-mail, video visiting service, access to an electronic library, certain news resources and legal systems) seems to be the most optimal solution in strengthening confidence in the institution of punishment in Russia.
criminal punishment, digitalization, digital punishments, the use of digital technologies in sentencing
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