PREVENTION PROBLEMS OF ILLEGAL TURNOVER OF CELLULAR COMMUNICATION MEANS AMONG DIFFERENT STRATIFICATION GROUPS CONSIDERED TO DETERMINATION OF FREEDOM
The article is devoted to the trends in the spread of digital technologies in law enforcement agencies, including the peculiarities of the impact of new technologies on the sphere of criminal sentences execution in the form of imprisonment. The problems of communication technologies using for criminal purposes by separate categories of citizens are touched upon. The problematic issues of the illegal acquisition, distribution and use of mobile phones and components for them sentenced to imprisonment, the issues of combating the illegal use of these prohibited items during their serving of sentences in correctional institutions are revealed. The characteristic of a new stratification group of convicts is given, using mobile phones for various purposes: for personal outwardly unlawful purposes; to destabilize the normal activities of correctional institutions; and also as an instrument for the commission of various crimes not related to the established procedure for serving a sentence. A brief description of the hierarchical structure of this community of persons is given, divided into six conditional categories depending on the role and organizational abilities of its members, namely, convicts not criminally infected; conditionally criminally infected convicts, partially criminally infected convicts, criminally infected convicts - performers, criminally infected convicts - organizers, criminally infected convicts - accomplices. It is noted that the issue of organizing the prevention of crimes and offenses committed by convicts using modern telecommunication and communication systems remains open.