Some Issues of Countering Criminal Offenses in the Field of Informatization and Communications in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract

According to official statistics, in recent years there has been an increase in the registration of crimes that have a pronounced «intellectual» character. The objectively recorded growth of criminal encroachments using information technology dictates the urgent need for theoretical research and generalization of law enforcement practice. The authors made an attempt on the basis of the integrated use of historical and statistical methods to show the impact of improving the substantive criminal legislation on the state of investigative and judicial practice in cases of criminal offenses in the field of informatization and communications. The history of the regulation of responsibility for cybercrime in the criminal laws of sovereign Kazakhstan is traced. As possible ways to increase the effectiveness of countering crimes committed using information systems, the authors formulated proposals to change the form of statistical reporting.