Internet Offenses of Young Population

Abstract

Global informatization of the society is a prevailing trend of civilization development in the 21st century. Due to rapid growth of opportunities of computer science, telecommunication systems and new information technologies, information environment of people’s life is developing and information society is establishing.This process has both positive and negative moments. The purposes and objectives of the research. The study of issues of the Internet space impact on youth is aimed at attracting the attention of theoretical scholars and legal practitioners hereto. The authors set the following objectives: To explore Internet influence on youth; to carry out analysis of offenses in the Internet space, reveal their specific features, classify; determine our stance on the issues under discussion arising in course of research. Findings. All offenses committed on the Internet space have the following features:—holding responsibility for unlawful acts committed on the Internet space is related to difficulties in collecting and preserving evidence of the commission hereof;—spread of information on the Internet is peculiar whereby it isn’t subject to regulation by the legislation of one particular country, as the computer space has no territorial boundaries;—the Internet doesn’t have and can’t have an owner, it cannot be owned by one particular country;—the overwhelming majority of criminal and administrative offenses and crimes are classified by the Russian legislator into specially qualified types of particular offenses;—unlawful acts committed in the global network occur quite often and may violate the legitimate interests and rights of bodies who don’t use the Internet and may not even be aware hereof;—almost all Internet crimes are committed with a specific intent, administrative offences can be committed intentionally or recklessly;—The subjects of the unlawful acts under consideration are legal and natural entities (citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign citizens) as well as officials. The vast majority of unlawful acts in the global network are committed by people from 14 to 30 years (youth). This is due to the fact that representatives of this age group are the most active Internet users.