Self-Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64184/ajlps.V2.I3.Y2025.P958-990.177Keywords:
Digital crimes, Cyber security, Traditional crimes, Economic crimes Information security, Digital privacy.Abstract
This study focuses on the problem of conceptual confusion between digital crimes and traditional and economic crimes on the one hand, and between cybersecurity, information security and digital privacy on the other hand, a confusion that results in a lack of understanding of the legal nature of these phenomena and a lack of clarity in the mechanisms to confront them. The importance of this study is manifested in its scientific aspect by contributing to the control of terminology and identifying the essential differences between them in order to enhance the theoretical construction in criminal jurisprudence, and in its practical aspect by guiding the legislator and decision makers towards the development of legislation more accurate and appropriate to the nature of the digital environment.
The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach by extrapolating legal texts and doctrinal opinions and analyzing them in the light of contemporary technical developments. The results concluded that digital crimes represent an independent criminal phenomenon with a special technical environment, while cybersecurity remains a broad preventive framework that differs in content from information security and digital privacy, which requires the formulation of precise legislative treatments to accommodate these differences and achieve integrated protection of digital security.
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