Abdolreza Javan jafari
Abstract
Information technology development has deeply affected all aspects of social, economic, cultural, life including criminal law. This development has forced lawyers and policy makers of these areas to reflect deeply. Differences between traditional and cyber crimes are such that long standing conventional ...
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Information technology development has deeply affected all aspects of social, economic, cultural, life including criminal law. This development has forced lawyers and policy makers of these areas to reflect deeply. Differences between traditional and cyber crimes are such that long standing conventional criminal policy can no longer tackle them. Transnationality, easiness of occurrence, anonymity of culprits and their large scale effects partly show the characteristics of these offences. These features on one hand and dependence of the modern social life’s structures on the other hand necessitate preparing a new criminal approach. Efficacy and efficiency of new acts against digital crimes require a new advance to categories such as definition of crime, elements of crime, criminal responsibility and so on. The main focus of this article is explanation of reasons and requirements of distinguished criminal policy against cyber crimes. Although analytical investigation of the Iranian criminal law in cyber crime is not the main aim of this writing, I tried to find out to what extent the differentiated criminal approach is adopted and applied by the Iranian criminal law.
