Electronic Investigation Technologies and Modern Format of Technical and Criminalistic Support for Criminal Cases Investigation

The article considers the main aspects of the electronic criminal investigation technologies application from the point of view of modern legislation of Russia and foreign countries. In modern society, there is a continuous process of improving the means of transmitting information, developing and implementing new technical devices for its processing and storage. The rapid development of science and technology inevitably leads to the desire to regulate the relations that arise in this area from a legal point of view. Meanwhile, in the Russian legal science, the information space is defined through the unity of its two components: the technical one, which includes the communication and communication infrastructure, and the social one – the community of Internet users. In this regard, the normative regulation of this area justifiably causes objective difficulties. The development of high technologies leads to the most frequent use of a relatively new form of technical and forensic support for the investigation of criminal cases in the process of criminal investigation. In the modern practice of investigation, the traces left by criminals on various media due to the expansion of digitalization processes are becoming more and more important every year. Timely, systematic development of legal regulation of the use of electronic information technologies is recognized as the most important condition for the successful digitalization of criminal proceedings. Understanding the need for the introduction of electronic technologies in the investigation of a criminal case from the point of view of the informational and technological nature is necessary, since the criminal process should not be an exception within the framework of a single international information policy, and its technological effectiveness should be dominant.