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Criminal Law and Criminalistic forensic approach to fighting Cyber

Computers, computer systems, Internet and social networks represent today one of the most important achievements of technical and technological development of human civilization. In addition to the enormous benefits to humanity of these inventions are unfortunately abused and become a means for the execution of specific criminal acts named cyber crime. At the center of this type of crime is information technology as software for execution these criminal actions. International documents and with them harmonized national legislation are the legal framework in the fight against cyber crime. Work on discovering and proving criminal offenses of cyber crime is very difficult due to the specific ways of committing, the characteristics of the offender, place of committing as well as the time and place of occurrence of consequences. The primary role in proving this type of crime has a criminalistic forensics to obtain relevant evidence with a view to prosecuting the perpetrators. The paper presents the analysis of certain crimes committed in the area of cyber crime in the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia and given significant results in detecting and proving these criminal offenses. In concluding remarks are given suggestions de lege ferenda in order to improve the legal and institutional framework for combating cyber crime.

cyber crime ; international legal framework ; criminal law ; forensics

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