Legal Regulation of «Feedback Suits»

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Recently, one of the most rapidly growing market segments has become a VR (virtual reality) system with a huge number of various prototypes and devices that allow you to immerse yourself in artificial simulation as much as possible. This article discusses the main aspects of criminalization related to the regulation of crimes committed in the vastness of virtual reality using «feedback suits». The legal system is struggling to keep pace with the development of the Internet, which today allows for the creation of new platforms and opportunities for crime prevention.

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Vadim Andreevich Chukreev

Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region

Email: chukreevva@mail.ru
Cand.Sci.(Law), Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region, Deputy Prosecutor. Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

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