Application of digital tools in the criminal process

Abstract

Currently, technological development through digital tools is transforming the activities of legal operators in judicial processes, especially in the criminal process; in this sense, the objective of this research is “to determine how digital tools are being applied in the criminal process” considering the advance of ICT. The methodology used is qualitative, descriptive and exploratory approach through the search and review of primary and secondary scientific articles of high impact indexed in the databases Scopus, Scielo, Dialnet and Redalyc; for this purpose the Boolean operator AND has been used, using as keywords “criminal process”, “digital tools”, “digital tools and criminal process”, “digital tools and justice administration”, “justice and digital” and “digital tools and justice”; English and Spanish language, with a period of time from 2018 to 2024. From the results collected and analyzed, it was evidenced that digital tools support and facilitate the activity of justice operators in criminal law and the responsibility of the State in developing legal norms that regulate the creation of algorithms for this purpose, with the aim of protecting fundamental rights of users.