Current issues of digitalization of criminal proceedings: a look into the future

Abstract

The authors point out the main problems of the transformation of criminal justice. Which rest on the need to reform the entire system of the branch of law, as the digitalization of any sphere of activity requires changes in formal and constitutional institutions, culture, as well as the creation and use of AI artificial intelligence systems, the creation of technological capabilities to analyze huge amounts of Big Data and the protection of personal data. This is a condition of digital transformation.In the formation of a strategy of digitalization of criminal justice in the Russian Federation, according to the authors, there is a stalemate, which is difficult to resolve. On the one hand, criminal justice is a procedural institute, which operates strictly within the system of regulations, on the other hand, the digitalization of criminal proceedings requires huge changes in the sphere of law in general and in its individual branches.From the technological point of view, we see from the example of some business projects that such processes of some sectors of the economy are feasible. To build a technological platform for criminal proceedings is currently possible, it requires a transition to electronic criminal records (with minor amendments to the RF Criminal Procedural Code), to implement artificial intelligence and “drive” it all into technologies for processing large heterogeneous data Big Data, OLAP and DataMining. The problem lies not in the impossibility to change the existing legal model of criminal procedure and other procedural subjects, but in the fact that law enforcement is carried out between values where logic is powerless, where thinking is carried out in the form of understanding. And the necessary condition for understanding requires intuition and empathy as the most important elements of legal thinking of the law enforcement officer. Artificial intelligence cannot have them.In other words, in some parts of the law enforcement will be possible to create some kind of digital platforms, which will not meet the whole concept of building a sectoral platform, the consequence of these particular transformations is the fact that a co mprehensive digitalization of criminal justice is not expected in the near future, in view of the thin matter of science – law.