The article discusses approaches to understanding the term that refers to crime committed in the virtual space using digital technologies. The emergence of interest in this topic is driven not only by the widespread nature of this type of crime, but also by the emergence of a new field in criminology, known as “digital criminology,” which has led to increased research on digital crime. In order to fully understand the phenomenon under study, it is necessary to bring the definition of the key term, which refers to crime committed in the virtual space using digital technologies, to a unified standard. We believe that this has been achieved in the study by providing an accurate and unambiguous definition that eliminates ambiguity and synonymy.
А. А. Павлова (Mon,) studied this question.