Vorüberlegungen zu einer Kriminologie des Digitalen

authored by

Georgia Stefanopoulou

Abstract

In the last few years there has been increasing discussion about whether “Cybercri-minology” needs to be established in the course of digitalization as a new subject area in criminology. The following text points out that we need something more than just a kind of „Cybercriminology“, which focuses on the conditions and the specifics of Internet crime. What we need is a comprehensive “Criminology of the digital” that takes into account the social transformations caused by digitalization as a whole and processes them in connection with the phenomenon of deviation and the mechanisms of social control and prevention. The focus of this new disci-pline should be the systemic character of the digital network as a crime-generating macrostructure as well as the new behavior control techniques of data tracking and data rating.

Organisation(s)

Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Comparative Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law

Type

Article

Journal

Kriminologisches Journal

Volume

53

Pages

294-307

No. of pages

14

ISSN

0341-1966

Publication date

02.12.2021

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Safety Research, Law

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions