PERSONALIZATION AS AN OBJECT OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE Guskov Ivan Yurievich, adjunct. <...> Place of study: Nizhny Novgorod Academy of MIA Russia. <...> Department: Criminal Law and Criminal Executive Law chair. <...> The urgency of the problems posed in the title of the article, is determined by the fact that the doctrine of criminal law investigation of personalization, as an object of criminal law protection, has been neglected. <...> There are research results, which take up the problems of counteraction of certain types of criminal attacks, which in some way damaging and personalization: criminal-law protection of the Unified State Register (A. Gorlov, A. Kharchenko, O. Yakovlev, A. Putilin, Z. Mirzaev), responsible for the forgery, manufacture or sale of forged documents (V. Postnikov, P. Letnikov, O. Kaleschina) and so on. <...> However, despite the already accumulated scientific potential, there are no studies on the criminal-legal analysis of crimes that infringe on the personalization means, in this connection, the degree of scientific elaboration of the problem cannot be considered sufficient, making it necessary to conduct this study. <...> The methodological basis for the study presented the basic provisions of the dialectical method of cognition; private and academic research methods (particularly sociological, systematic and formal-logical). <...> In domestic criminal law presented norms criminalizing attacks on personalization tools. <...> Nevertheless, the current level of technical security and the pace of development of information technologies pose new challenges for the legislator to ensure their adequate criminal remedies. <...> Personalization tools can act as a crime subject, the means or instruments of the crime. <...> Scientific and practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the findings contained therein, may be used to: - Improving the law-making and law enforcement in combating crime affecting the personalization tools; - In research work in the further development of the provisions related to the study of the criminal legal framework to counter crimes encroaching on personalization and identification means. <...> This article is intended for students, graduate students, Law professors of universities and law faculties, law enforcement officials, practicing lawyers, as well as for all those interested in issues relevant topics. <...> Актуальность проблемы и цель исследования Актуальность проблемы, вынесенной в название статьи, определяется тем, что в доктрине уголовного права исследованию средств <...>