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Cyber crime - the emergence of new crimes

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Code Science Field Subfield
5.07.00  Social sciences  Criminology and social work   

Code Science Field
S160  Social sciences  Criminology 
Keywords
cyber crime,Internet,new crimes,criminal law, globalisation,privacy,computers
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Researchers (5)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  06978  PhD Zoran Kanduč  Criminology and social work  Researcher  2004 - 2007  499 
2.  22435  PhD Nina Peršak  Law  Researcher  2004 - 2006  297 
3.  06979  PhD Renata Salecl  Criminology and social work  Head  2004 - 2007  866 
4.  14339  Ivanka Sket  Criminology and social work  Researcher  2004 - 2007  64 
5.  26029  PhD Aleš Završnik  Criminology and social work  Junior researcher  2007  502 
Organisations (1)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0504  Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law  Ljubljana  5051525000  4,578 
Abstract
The unexpected widespread success of the Internet, coupled with the ever growing computer literacy, has witnessed the emergence of the so-called "cyber society", which is, on the one hand, much more sophisticated and developed than any of its "real" counterparts, pluralism, tolerance, free movement and freedom of speech being not only its values but a fact. On the other hand, this society is, like the "real" ones, faced with a variety of social problems and, specifically, crime. Cyber crime, however, has a special characteristic; apart from the "old" (already known) crimes that are merely carried out in the specific (computer-related) way, there are others (internet-related) crimes like illegal access, data or system interference etc. that are specifically new. It is this latter category of crimes we propose to study at this point. The study will involve a varity of issues of theoretical as well as of practical nature and will give special emphasis on the present situation and trends in Slovenia. The research will encompass three aspects: (a) the legal aspect shall, among the overview of relevant domestic, foreign and international literature, analyse the appopriateness/efficiency of solving the subject-matter with the criminal law, which leads up to several other questions regarding the measurement of the appropriateness/efficiency, the role of the victim etc; (b) the criminological aspect will involve a sociological analysis of certain typical cyber-crimes and inspect the very legitimacy of the repressive state interventions into the, so far still more or less autonomous and private, sphere of the individual within the liberal society; and finally (c) the computer-scientific aspect shall offer a more detailed explanation of the way in which certain cyber crimes are carried out and locate the possible technical crime-prevention solutions.
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