Using Online Services to Report a Crime

Authors

Larisa MASLENNIKOVA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5713-7679
Tatyana VILKOVA Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3436-1288
Andrew SOBENIN Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA), Moscow, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5156-9104
Kseniia TABOLINA Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA), Moscow, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4991-7269
Tatyana TOPILINA O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-8646

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.450

Keywords:

criminal justice, online services, electronic interaction, digital technologies

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze the Russian and foreign experience in the introduction of online services for reporting crime and substantiate proposals for improving effective communication between the state and the population in the context of the development of digital technologies.

The features of online services for filing crime reports of various leading states in the field of e-government development are considered. The general trends and limits of the use of online services for filing a crime report in electronic form are revealed:1) the possibility of handling such a report only in cases that do not require an immediate response from law enforcement officials; 2) a limited number of categories of crimes for which an electronic crime report can be made; 3) the identification of the applicant both through national portals of public services, and without mandatory identification and authentication; 4) an electronic warning to the applicant about the responsibility for providing deliberately false information; 5) the ability to attach various materials to the application, including a video recording of the crime, data about the person who committed the crime, and other information.

The conclusion is justified that the introduction of electronic crime reports should complement the ability to directly report a crime to the police, and not compete with it. The prospects of using online services for reporting a crime by persons with hearing and/or speech impairments are determined. The ways of informing the persons who reported the crime about their rights are shown.

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Author Biographies

Larisa MASLENNIKOVA

(PhD, Dr. of Science in Law) is a Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law of the O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia. Her interests include publicity and dispositivity in criminal proceedings, evidence, and decision-making in adversarial criminal proceedings. Maslennikova is the author of more than 20 monographs and 120 scientific articles. Recent publications: “The Constitutional Obligation of the State to Provide the Victim of a Crime with Access to Justice in the New Digital Reality”, “On the Political Significance of Digitalization of Pre-Trial Proceedings in Criminal Proceedings”.

Tatyana VILKOVA, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia

(PhD in Law) is an Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law at Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia. Her interests include criminal justice, the judicial system, the history of the court, digital technologies in the field of law. Vilkova is the author of 5 monographs and 45 scientific articles, the patent holder of 20 results of intellectual activity in the form of databases. Recent publication: “Principles of Criminal Justice in the System of Principles of National Law: General Legal and Intersectoral Aspects”.

Andrew SOBENIN, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA), Moscow, Russia

(PhD in Law) is an Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA), Moscow, Russia. His interests include checking the justice of court decisions, the initial stage of criminal proceedings in the context of the development of digital technologies. Sobenin is the author of 33 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Integrated Information Systems of Criminal Justice in the United States”, “Prospects and Risks of Using Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Proceedings”.

Kseniia TABOLINA, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA), Moscow, Russia

(PhD in Law) is an Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA), Moscow, Russia. Her interests include criminal justice, prosecutor’s supervision, judicial system, digital technologies in the field of law. Tabolina is the author of 1 monograph and 27 scientific articles, co-author of 1 monograph, patent holder of 6 results of intellectual activity in the form of databases. Recent publications: “Prosecutor’s Supervision over the Initiation and Investigation of Criminal Cases”, “Prosecutor’s Supervision in Criminal Proceedings in the Context of the Leading Development of Digital Relations”.

Tatyana TOPILINA, O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia

is a post-graduate student of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law of the O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russia. Her interests include criminal justice, access to justice, and digital technologies in the field of law. Topilina is the author of 9 scientific articles. Recent publications: “The Right to Access to Justice as a Principle of Criminal Proceedings”, “Access to Justice and Problems of its Restriction in Criminal Proceedings”, “The Right to Access to Justice as a Substantive and Procedural Right”.

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2021-06-25

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MASLENNIKOVA, L. ., VILKOVA, T. ., SOBENIN, A. ., TABOLINA, K. ., & TOPILINA, T. . (2021). Using Online Services to Report a Crime. WISDOM, 18(2), 120–128. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.450

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