THE DIGITAL ERA OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ITS FEATURES DUE TO THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

The article considers and studies the pros and cons of digital criminal justice with due regard to the latest scientific achievements in the field of computer technology, neural networks, and artificial intelligence. The digitalization of criminal justice is an inevitable result of a radical change in the way of life, which was influenced by the rapid development of electronic information technologies. Currently, they are used in criminal justice as a means of assisting the judge and other parties to criminal proceedings in improving the quality of their work, reducing the time and effort spent on the implementation of the procedural rights and obligations assigned to them. The study of the Russian litigation practice has shown that the list of specific forms of using computer technologies is quite long in criminal proceedings. Due to the emergence of neural networks and the consistent implementation of artificial intelligence, scientific literature suggests the complete replacement of traditional criminal justice with the electronic (automated) implementation of criminal proceedings, including criminal cases considered on the merits.