Preliminary communication
The Applicability of Traditional Concepts of Substantive Criminal Law to Computer Crimes
Igor Vuletić
; Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The paper discusses the applicability of traditional concepts of the general part of substantive criminal law to computer crime. With the continuous development of the society come new forms of crime. One such form is computer crime.
Computer crime is closely connected to computer technology and the Internet. The number of victims is increasing. In order to combat this dangerous type of crime lawyers must be educated in the field of computer technology and the Internet.
It is also necessary that legal provisions follow modern trends and provide an adequate legal framework to fight this form of crime. This paper raises the question whether or not such traditional institutes of the general part, such as the principle of legality, omission, preparatory acts etc. can be simply and without any adaptation applied to computer crime. The author analyses these problems on certain examples from Croatian and comparative case-law and gives suggestions for improvement of Croatian legislation de lege ferenda.
Keywords
computer crime; attempt; omission; complicity; indirect intent; analogy
Hrčak ID:
132626
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2014.
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