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When Should Virtual Cybercrime Be Brought under the Scope of the Criminal Law?
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-39891-9_8, author={Litska Strikwerda}, title={When Should Virtual Cybercrime Be Brought under the Scope of the Criminal Law?}, proceedings={Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. 4th International Conference, ICDF2C 2012, Lafayette, IN, USA, October 25-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ICDF2C}, year={2013}, month={10}, keywords={virtual (cyber-)crime legal ontology institutional facts harm principle offense principle legal paternalism legal moralism}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-39891-9_8} }- Litska Strikwerda
Year: 2013
When Should Virtual Cybercrime Be Brought under the Scope of the Criminal Law?
ICDF2C
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39891-9_8
Abstract
This paper is about the question when virtual cybercrime should be brought under the scope of the criminal law. By virtual cybercrime I mean crime that involves a specific aspect of computers or computer networks: virtuality. Examples of virtual cybercrime are: virtual child pornography, theft of virtual items and the killing of an avatar (a virtual person). Drawing from philosophical ontology and legal philosophy I will establish what the necessary and sufficient conditions are for virtual cybercrime to obtain in order to count as crime under criminal law. I will also examine when virtual cybercrime meets these criteria.
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