Criminology security in the conditions of digital transformation: concept, essence and meaning

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the essence, definition and meaning of criminological security in the conditions of digital transformation. It is noted that the research issue of ensuring the safety of people, civil society, and the state in general from the various powerful capabilities of modern digital and computer technologies has recently played a rather important role in ensuring the level of criminological security.

It was established that during the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the issue of security became the most acute, because the lives of citizens depend on its observance and provision. That is why modern challenges increasingly encourage states to build a safe future and really develop effective measures to prevent and neutralize numerous threats and ensure security at various levels.

The purpose of the study is to study the state of criminological security in the conditions of digital transformation, as well as its essence and significance in criminological science.

The article emphasizes that the relevance and progressiveness of the study of the theory of crimi­nological security is caused by the need to form a new ideology of combating crime, to reorient the law enforcement system from the search for criminological threats (which seems to be secondary) to the real implementation of the main task - ensuring the safety of people from criminal encroachments.

It has been noted that the constant threat of cybercrime is very present and very real. The widespread use of digital technologies and the Internet in modern society attracts the attention of criminologists more and more often, in particular, such a direction in criminology as cybercriminology is expanding.

It has been proven that in order to resist negative manifestations on the Internet and use new opportunities, it is necessary to understand the essence and meaning of cyber security, cybercrime and, in general, directions of new information technologies. In addition, it is important to research and influence such areas as: the cyber security threat environment; the potential business cost of a cyber attack to other entities; assessment of the degree of security of the enterprise, institution or organization; analysis of opportunities to respond in time to negative incidents and ways of using new digital technologies.

The author emphasized in the article that the research and study of the theory of criminological security is designed to contribute to the definition of its main essence, that is, the protection of the individual, society and the state from such a negative, antisocial phenomenon as crime, that is, the identification of those main values that guarantee criminological security at the appropriate level. That is why it is important and necessary at the state level to adopt the Criminological Security Strategy of Ukraine for 2023-2028, because this is exactly the task that must be completed in order to properly protect the rights and freedoms of people and citizens from negative encroachments in cyberspace, with which every citizen of our country is connected in a certain way.