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Abstract

The article deals with cyber diversion issues as a separate article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as a new form of diversion (article 113 of the Criminal Code), which was created on the basis of articles 361, 361-1, 361-2, 363, 363-1 of Criminal Code, providing punishment for crimes in the sphere of using computers, systems and computer networks. The author considers that the way, that allows assuming higher social safety in such crimes is their qualification according to the rules of a set of articles from other chapters of CC of Ukraine. In this particular case the link of art.113 CC of UA “Diversion” with art. 361, 361-1, 361-2, 362, 363, 363-1 of CC of UA that provide punishment for crimes in the sphere of computer applying, systems, and computer networks is substantiated. Unlawful interference in analog-to-digital computers applying, their systems or computer networks, distorted computer information, destruction of computer information, the spread of the virus, software are suggested to define as determination of the latest forms of diversion that is the ways of committing cyber diversion. The article points out that in the process of norms of criminal liability of crimes committing on the objects of critical informational infrastructure or objects that are essential for state viability there is the necessity of considering the mechanism of committing such infringements. In the case of committing cyber diversity with the aim of the destruction of information or focused attack of a particular control unit, the mentioned mechanism is characterized by applying particular computer information (tool-virus) for influencing other computer information (subject – critical informational structure). The absence of at least one of the elements of the mechanism must be testified as a lack of characteristics of such forms of crime as a cyber diversion

Keywords: diversion, cyber diversion, the direct object of the crime, the subject of the crime, subjective side of the crime, mechanism of the crime, qualification of the crime

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