Preliminary communication
Computer Fraud – Analysis of Effectiveness of Discovery Activity
Nikola Protrka
orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-3536
; MUP Rh, Zagreb, RH
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to give the reader an insight into the legal standardization of the criminal offence of computer fraud described in Art. 271. of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Croatia. The paper also outlines a description of the computer fraud from the Criminal Code that was valid until 2013, because the data for analytical processing are based on a ten-year period covering the factual description of both laws.
The first part of the paper reviews and clarifies the description of the criminal offense under the Criminal Code that came into force until 2011 and the new Criminal Code passed in 2011, and started with the 2013 application for the analysed criminal offense of Computer Fraud .
In the second part of the paper, a study was carried out on the effectiveness of the work of Croatian institutions that relieve criminal offenses of computer fraud. The research also includes a more detailed qualitative analysis of the number of reported cases and the number of cases of computer fraud in the Republic of Croatia over the last 10 years. The source of data on which the entire research conducted for the purpose of this work is the Croatian Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of the Interior.
Keywords
Computer Fraud; Criminal Offense; Analytical Processing; Qualitative Analysis.
Hrčak ID:
225567
URI
Publication date:
25.9.2019.
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