Ensuring criminological security in the context of digital transformation

Introduction: the article is devoted to the consideration of issues of ensuring criminological security in the conditions of digital transformation and ways to overcome them. Materials and Methods: the study materials were the legislative framework that forms the legal basis for ensuring criminological security, digital economy and digital transformation, as well as regulating activities to protect individuals, society and the state from criminal encroachments; judicial practice data, statistical indicators of registered crimes committed using digital technologies. The methodological tools were empirical and linguistic methods of cognition, scientific and analytical approach, as well as special legal methods: formal legal and comparative legal. Results: the study of criminal threats to the individual, society and the state in the context of digital transformation (crimes committed using information and communication technologies, including the legalization of criminal proceeds, terrorist financing, the organization of illegal distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as the use of digital currencies for illegal purposes) allowed us to come to the conclusion that improving the efficiency of ensuring criminological security, which requires the creation of such conditions, which will reduce the level of criminal threats and increase the level of protection of the individual, society and the state. Discussion and Conclusions: taking into account the study of the current state of criminal threats in modern Russia, the unprecedented growth of crimes committed using or in relation to digital technologies, low detection and high latency, the need to create conditions for the effective operation of the criminological security system in the context of digital transformation in digital technologies, taking into account the use of legal convergence is justified, modernization of the educational process for training specialists for the Russian law enforcement system, interaction of law enforcement agencies at the interdepartmental, intradepartmental and international levels.