Review article
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2024.61.152.239
Criminal offence of computer fraud as an abuse of computer data and the computer system
Marissabell Škorić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-3651
; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Pravni fakultet
Juraj Karlo Leder
orcid.org/0009-0005-2828-9533
Abstract
Following the introductory remarks about information and telecommunication technology,
which has created a fully new and specific cyberspace within which individuals undertake numerous
and diverse activities, the paper analyzes one of the most common forms of computer crime, whose
number is continuously increasing – the criminal offense of computer fraud under Article 271 of
the Criminal Code. In order to effectively respond to the new challenges, the legislator has set
the modalities of committing this criminal offense very broadly, which raises the question of its
relationship with other criminal offenses. Therefore, in addition to the current legal regulation, the
paper also considers the issue of the concurrence of the criminal offense of computer fraud with
other criminal offenses. The paper particularly points to the highly widespread use of malicious
software as a means of collecting computer data, which imposes the need for constant education
on the safe ways of using modern technology. The observed problem of the constant increase in
the number of reports of the criminal offense of computer fraud and the extremely high proportion
of their unknown perpetrators calls for a systematic and comprehensive improvement of measures
needed for their identification, and it emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary knowledge as a
necessary condition for a successful fight against this form of crime.
Keywords
computer crime; computer fraud; malicious software; concurrence; interdisciplinarity
Hrčak ID:
319123
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2024.
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