Criminalistics in Defence of Russian Traditional Spiritual and Moral Values

When investigating mass riots, sabotage, incitement to interethnic and interreligious hatred or enmity, inducement of minors to suicide and many other crimes, the use of modern information technologies by criminals in combination with psychological methods of manipulation of human consciousness can be traced. Such technologies of influence on the consciousness and unconsciousness of people are often aimed at changing their worldview, the basis of which is traditional spiritual and moral values. Since Russian traditional spiritual and moral values are the foundation of the sovereignty and national security of our state, public relations related to ensuring their protection are increasingly becoming the object of criminal encroachment. The study of criminalistic features of the mechanism of various types of crime through the prism of their attempt on Russian traditional spiritual and moral values allowed to classify them into two groups: those that directly infringe on these values and in which such values act as an intermediate link of infringement in achieving another criminal goal. The dialectical method of cognition, general scientific methods of abstraction, analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, as well as special legal methods (comparative law, logical law, etc.) are defined as the methodological basis of the study. According to the results of the study, it was found that criminalistics is one of the most important tools for identifying technologies of criminal encroachments on Russian traditional spiritual and moral values. At the same time, the study of technologies of encroachment on these values should be interdisciplinary in nature with the participation of specialists in the field of criminal law, criminology, psychology, computer science, etc.