CURRENT PROBLEMS OF THE GENERAL VICTIMOLOGICAL PREVENTION OF THE COMPUTER THEFT IN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
GEVORG ISRAYELYAN
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor,
Head of the Scientific Research Center of Applied problems in criminology of
National Bureau of Expertises of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia,
lecturer of the Law Department at Eurasia International University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2024.4-6-41
Annotation.
The development and widespread use of information and communication technologies, the possibility of online banking transactions have led to an increase in the number of computer thefts, which is inevitably due to the victimological factor.
As a result of the conducted research, the author was able to identify the personal and behavioral characteristics of victims of computer theft, the nature of the relationship with the victim and the perpetrator. Thus, the personal characteristics of the victims are gullibility, imprudence, frivolity, low ability to use information technology. In accordance with these personal characteristics, victims in a particular situation, as a rule, demonstrate an inability to correctly assess the situation, are misled, and sometimes thoughtlessly establish dangerous connections. In most cases, the perpetrator and the victim are not related in any way. Rarely do they have a relationship that developed before the crime was committed.
Taking into account the above, in the author‘s opinion, in order to general victimological prevention of the computer theft, it is necessary to hold seminars, discussions and other events among the population on victimological issues of these crimes, carry out media publications of appropriate content, organize victimological and educational activities in schools and other educational institutions, and conduct explanatory work by law enforcement agencies measures of acceptance.