SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASES OF CRIMINALIZATION OF FRAUD IN COMPUTER INFORMATION

The article analyzes socio-economic and information technology bases of criminalization of fraud in the field of computer information. It is shown that the socio-economic factor of conditionality of the criminal law protection of information and economic security is predetermined by the emergence and development in the modern world of the digital economy. As for information technology factors of conditionality of criminal law protection of economic relations, they are associated with the processes of formation of the information society. According to the author, under the conditions of action of new objective laws, paradigms of criminal law protection of property relations change, and the focus shifts towards protecting property and other economic relations in the use of information and communication technologies from various unlawful interventions and violations. It is concluded that the mechanism of criminal law regulation of information property relations requires the construction of new offenses related to the rules on traditional fraud committed using deception or abuse of trust in relation to exclusively alien things as objects of the physical world or right to property.