The impact of digital technologies on improving the legal regulation of criminal procedural activities

Abstract

Analyzing the impact of modern technologies on the criminal process, the authors come to the conclusion that automation and digitalization of criminal procedural activities will not lead to a positive result if the inaccuracies, gaps and contradictions in the current legislation that create difficulties in current law enforcement activities are not eliminated. Taking into account the upcoming automation and digitalization of the criminal process, it is proposed to rethink and define some procedural terms and institutions in a new way, including such as reporting a crime, reasons and grounds for initiating a criminal case, pre-investigation check, criminal case.