The Alternative in the Norms of Criminal Law as a Problem of the Formation of Digital Justice

A study was conducted on the digitalization of justice as an actual and promising area, which involves the introduction of information technology in every single aspect of justice activities. In the course of the study, the author comes to the conclusion about a possible variant of the development of digital justice in Russia – a “digital assistant judge”. Investigating this issue, the author identifies a problem that prevents the introduction of the concept of “digital assistant to a judge” – the problem of correlating alternative sanctions of criminal law norms with dispositions providing for alternative compositions of crimes. At the end of the study, the author concludes that in order to implement the concept of a “digital assistant to a judge”, criminal law must comply with the requirements of machine-readable legislation, and suggests specific measures.