Prosecuting Cybercrimes under International Legal Frameworks: Challenges and Innovations
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https://doi.org/10.57125/FEL.2023.09.25.05Keywords:
cybercrime, international law, conventions, counteraction, challengesAbstract
Combating cybercrime is one of the most relevant areas of legal community development since the widespread integration of digital technologies into all human activity demonstrates the need to regulate this sensitive area. The aim is to study the international legal framework for countering cybercrime and the system of challenges and innovations that exist in the modern world. The research method used was a systematic review conducted through the LexisNexis, Westlaw, Scopus, and Web of Science databases among publications from 2010 to 2023. As a result of applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 56 relevant studies were identified, and their texts were subjected to content analysis. In the article, modern interpretations of the term “cybercrime” were defined, and certain legal international agreements that counteract its spread (primarily the Budapest Convention as an essential current document of modern legal influence) and trace the mechanisms of counteraction and methods of their improvement were examined. Other critical legal acts, such as the European Union Directive on the prevention of cyber-attacks on information systems and the European Commission Directive on combating fraud and other financial crimes on the Internet, were also considered. As a result, it was found that there were differences at the interstate level in the organisation of the cooperation, which included multilateral and bilateral agreements. The identified problems included insufficient interaction between the law enforcement agencies of different countries at the relevant stages and the lack of an agreed mechanism for obtaining external data. The conclusions established that close ties at the level of international law enforcement systems aimed at addressing cybercrime issues could effectively overcome these difficulties.
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