Digital equality in the interaction of citizens with the authorities in charge of criminal proceedings

The subject of the study is the concept of digital equality. The aim of the study is to identify the essential characteristics of digital equality in the interaction of citizens with the authorities conducting proceedings in criminal cases. General scientific methods were used: analysis, synthesis, method of two-level triadic decoding of basic category. As a result, we developed and interpreted a categorical model of digital equality in the interaction of citizens with authorities in charge of criminal proceedings, demonstrating what it is manifested in, how and for what purpose it can be achieved. The developed model allows to construct a logically grounded definition of the digital equality in criminal proceedings, detailing its essential aspects and connections between them, and provides a categorical apparatus for further comprehensive study of the subject area, in particular, such aspects of digital equality as its elementary composition, mechanism and conditions of implementation.