Cybercrime: a legal conceptual approach

Abstract

This study aimed to study cybercrime as a new type in the criminal field, which led many jurists to search for a concept for it, as well as from a legal perspective at the international and even national levels.Therefore, it has become necessary to research the concept of cybercrime, as well as its characteristics and motives for committing it in an attempt.To frame and limit it.

Among the results reached is that this development in the field of information and communication technology has contributed to a tremendous revolution in the field of informatics.If this technical revolution was positive with the emergence of electronic contracting and electronic commerce, on the other hand, some negatives appear, and what is known as electronic crime has emerged in the criminal arena.As a new development and transition from traditional crime to electronic crime, which has many shortcomings in terms of concept and legal framing.