Criminological characteristics of the personality of a criminal who commits criminal acts in the sphere of the economy using information and communication technologies

Abstract

The article deals with the criminological characteristics of the personality of a criminal who commits acts in the sphere of the economy using information and communication technologies. The author used statistical, comparative legal, analysis, formal logic as research methods. It is noted that the factors influencing the formation of the offender’s personality are external conditions that cause a certain situation that affects human behavior and internal conditions — the properties of the psyche of a particular individual, formed in the process of social communication. The main criminological characteristics of the offender’s personality are studied, the socio-demographic, criminal-legal, moral-psychological characteristics inherent in him are determined. In addition, as part of the study of the identity of the offender, the need to introduce a new criminological concept of “latent subject” has been established. Such a person is engaged in direct planning of criminal activity, develops a mechanism for committing an act, using information and communication technologies for this, including to hide his identity, thus remaining “invisible” to law enforcement agencies. At the same time, as a circumstance that will help improve the efficiency of detecting and solving crimes in the field of information and communication technologies, there will be deanonymization of the information space, the ability to identify network users the Internet. Thus, the study of the personality of the offender and the introduction of a new concept of “latent subject” will contribute to the adoption of timely preventive response measures in the framework of the prevention of crimes in the information sphere.