Spread of Pseudo-laws of the Criminal Subculture through the Internet as a Manifestation of Cybercrime

Abstract

The article is devoted to certain issues of the spread of pseudo-laws of the criminal subculture by modern technologies of the Internet. The special danger of this phenomenon is pointed out as one of the mechanisms for the recovery of crime, including one of the most dangerous types of crime, namely organized crime. The works of most scientists in the field of criminology, both in Soviet times and today, are mentioned, pointing to the social danger of the spread of criminal subculture. It is noted that scientific and technical progress, beyond all its usefulness for society, simultaneously facilitated the process of spreading criminal subculture among the most diverse strata of the population. It is indicated that before the spread of the World Wide Web, the main mechanisms for the spread of criminal subculture have been mass criminalization of the population by mass media and individual criminalization of people and groups by the carriers of pseudo-laws of the criminal community. In the conditions of the availability of the World Wide Web, the spread of these pseudo-laws by popularizing a criminal lifestyle in social networks and other Internet resources comes to the fore. The subculture «AUE» spread in the Russian Federation and on the territory of Ukraine is analyzed as a specific organization, the main goal of which is to achieve the goals of the criminal community, in particular — the conversion of new members of the organization who profess the pseudo-laws of the criminal community, the collection of funds to ensure the functioning of criminal communities. The issue of the feasibility of considering the spread of criminal subculture through Internet resources as one of the manifestations of cybercrime is raised. The concept of cybercrime and its individual types is analyzed. In particular, two types of perception of cybercrime are offered — in a narrow sense (criminal offenses committed in the field of functioning of computer technologies) and in a broad sense — criminal offenses associated with the use of the Internet for the dissemination of socially harmful information. It is summarized that the use of Internet resources to popularize the criminal subculture in a broad sense is one of the manifestations of cybercrime.