Cybercrime in Mongolia. Up-to-date state and trends

Abstract

The article is devoted to criminological characteristics and peculiarities of a cybercrime in Mongolia, the main features of which is mainly typical for most states in the world, including its neighbor the Russian Federation. At the same time during the analysis of quantity and quality indicators of such a negative phenomenon, there are some peculiarities, typical for developing countries. The subject of the study is up-to-date state, dynamics and trends of cybercrime of the state, which is located at the Asian continent between one of the BRICS founder, the Russian Federation and China. Cybercrime as a phenomenon without any state borders is vividly shows transnational and multinational traits and character. During the study and analysis of the said phenomenon the following study methods were used: formal-logical, comparative, statistical, sociological and others. The novelty of the content is in usage of the newest statistical data on the essence of the research problem, assessment and consideration of different opinions and judgements on the subject matter. The aim of the study is to highlight the statement, that the modern cybercrime is a phenomenon, typical for all states, with different internal structure, regardless political, economic, ideological and other aspects, which widely shows persistent growth trend and expanding its scale at a time when there is a decrease and stabilization of the number of reported crimes in general.