International efforts to combat crimes in the field of information and communication technologies

The study of crimes committed in the field of information and communication technologies allows us to draw an unambiguous conclusion that they are committed in an information space unlimited by physical barriers and, as a result, often outside national jurisdictions. These manifestations are of a generalized nature, affecting the interests not of a single state or a group of states, but of the entire world community, which actualizes the fight against this type of crime at the international level. However, due to various reasons, primarily economic and political, some countries do not have an appropriate legal framework for countering criminal attacks in this area, and therefore the jurisdiction of these countries is used to commit the type of crimes under analysis, which, in the absence of a unified mechanism for countering them, is leveled out countries’ efforts to combat crime in general and crimes in the field of information and communication technologies in particular. In this regard, the need to develop unified approaches to the formation of a regulatory framework and interaction between states in this area is becoming urgent, including on the basis of international legal agreements developed for this purpose. The article analyzes the development of international cooperation using the example of the United Nations, in connection with the consideration of the draft Comprehensive Convention on Combating the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal Purposes.