Editorial: The impact of new Technologies on criminal justice – An horizon with unknown implications

Abstract

Modern society is dominated by new technologies, which have a quick expansion and a dramatic expansive attitude, in every area of individual and collective life. In the field of criminal proceedings, too, the use of advanced technological tools changes significantly the features of the system, with a visible impact on practices, but also on rights, safeguards and basic rules. This essay proposes a view of the areas of criminal justice where this phenomenon is more evident and of the main implications it has, in the perspective of protection of the basic principles of criminal proceedings and of fundamental rights of individuals.