THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FORM OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION: THE CONCEPT AND DIRECTIONS OF IMPROVEMENT

The active development and implementation of information technologies, as well as the ongoing dramatic changes in the modern world and society, require the criminal prosecution and court authorities to respond appropriately and to transform criminal proceedings. The purpose of the study is to determine the concept of a criminal procedure form of electronic information and the directions for its improvement. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that, recognizing the need to increase the efficiency of criminal proceedings, the author's definition of the concepts of "electronic information" and "criminal procedure form of electronic information" is proposed. The introduction draws attention to the relevance of the topic of research, which is expressed in the need to improve the criminal procedure form due to the widespread introduction of electronic information in the criminal process. In the main part, an analysis of modern criminal procedure science on this issue was carried out, the results of which summarize the idea that so far a unified scientific approach to the concept of criminal procedure has not been developed among procedural scientists. The conclusion concludes that in order to further improve the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the science of criminal procedure, It is proposed to introduce new criminal procedural terms "electronic information" and "criminal procedural form of electronic information", which define the evolutionary essence of the classical criminal procedural form of criminal proceedings and are aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the process of proof in a criminal case.