TO THE QUESTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN CRIMINAL POLICY AND THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
Global digitalization is creating new requirements, in particular a combination of legal and technical regulators, without which adequate legal regulation in the digital age will not be achieved. This article explores the possibility and necessity of integrating classical legal institutions and the digital environment, using the example of criminal proceedings. The idea of renunciation of the role of an investigator in criminal proceedings in the Russian Federation, put forward in the domestic legal doctrine, is analyzed; the existing examples of practical use of digital technologies in legal activity are considered. The subject of the study is the domestic and foreign legal doctrine devoted to the issues of digitalization and practice of application of information technologies in legal activity, as well as criminal law institutions. The following methods of scientific research have been used in this work: statistical; dogmatic; comparative legal; synergetic, as well as logical, functional, and systemic. The novelty of the study is due to the need to bring together the legal and information system during the rapid process of digitalization of all spheres of society. The authors come to the conclusion that new technological solutions can and will certainly become indispensable auxiliary solutions in legal activity, however, today the level of technology development does not allow to fully replace man, technology.