High-Tech Linked Crimes

Abstract

Modern research advanced open wide prospects for socio-economic and cultural progress, but they could also pose a threat for human rights and liberties. It is stated in the article that the transformation of the modern world under the influence of high technologies is leading to the emergence of new types of crimes; the authors show the necessity of developing a criminal law reaction to crimes connected with artificial intelligence, cybercrimes, crimes in the sphere of biotech, as well as the need to work out new approaches to fighting crimes linked to high technologies. The authors claim that the foundations for digital criminalistics have already been laid. They analyze the use of hi tech with criminal purposes in different spheres, including assisted reproductive technologies, and stress that the problems of population replacement, connected with human reproductive functions, are essential for the existence and development of any state and society. Meanwhile, there are considerable discrepancies in how different countries understand human reproductive rights, their protection and regulation. The criminal nature of different actions in the sphere of human reproduction is also understood differently. Modern medical technologies open up great possibilities in the sphere of assisted human reproduction, at the same time, this area is connected with legal risks. The authors attempt to compile a list of crimes against reproductive rights of humans and to view them as a unified object of criminalistic research. It is noted that the use of biotechnologies with criminal purposes could take the form of improper exercise and excess of authority, corruption, fraud and extortion. The article includes the results of the criminalistic analysis of legislation regarding assisted reproduction technologies. It has been revealed that the use of such technologies in Russia is growing year by year, while the legislation regulating legal relations in this sphere makes it possible to use its imperfections and to commit abuses and crimes connected with various falsifications. It is proven that the task of criminalistics is to develop effective technical, tactical and methodological recommendations with the goal of identifying and investigating criminally punishable falsifications. Specifically, it is recommended to introduce obligatory notarization of the surrogacy contract, and to change the procedure of presenting corresponding documentation to registry offices.