Forensic Characteristics of Post-Criminal Activity in Cases of Information Technology Crimes
The author describes the essence of the forensic characteristics of post-criminal activity on cases of information technology crimes on the basis of resolving theoretical issues regarding its content, structure, and the study of correlations between its elements. The characteristics are based on the scientifically proven mutual connection between the degree of public danger of the committed action and the activity (quantitative or qualitative) of concealing the crime and counteracting the investigation. The structure of the forensic characteristics of post-criminal activity is presented, including the subject of post-criminal activity and the specific manifestations of the subject’s personality traits; the object and circumstances of post-criminal activity of the subjects connected with the mechanism of crimes in the sphere of information technologies; typical ways of post-criminal impediment at the initial and following stages; typical ways of post-criminal cooperation at the initial and following stages; specific features of evidence activity of the subjects in the post-criminal period; typical traces of the post-criminal activity of subjects; circumstances contributing to committing crimes in the conditions of post-criminal impediment to investigating information technology crimes. The correlations of the forensic characteristics of post-criminal activity on criminal cases of information technology crimes are analyzed.