Legislative response to cybercrime in Iraq: A comparative study
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https://doi.org/10.64184/ajlps.V3.I2.Y2026.156-176.314Keywords:
The crime , Informatics ,the lawAbstract
The world has witnessed a radical shift towards digitalization, leading to the emergence of new patterns of crime that transcend traditional boundaries of space and time, namely (cybercrime). This type of crime no longer targets individuals alone, but now threatens national security and the economies of countries, which has placed the Iraqi legal system in a real challenge to adapt traditional criminal rules to the nature of digital development and the new patterns that this development has produced in the Criminology, This matter has raised many questions about the nature of that crime and the means required to prove it under Iraqi law and some Arab legislations.
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