Harmonizing international cybercrime laws and procedures

Abstract

Nowadays harmonizing international cybercrime laws could become an important global legal framework for international cooperation on preventing and investigating cybercrime, and prosecuting cybercriminals. Cybercrime, including massive and coordinated cyber attacks against countries' critical information infrastructure, and terrorist misuse of the Internet, are global crimes. Cyberspace has made a new environment for criminal offenses. Through international organizations, efforts must be taken to ensure the similarity of provisions in the individual countries. This harmonization may be achieved by means of conventions, recommendations or guidelines. This article analyzes approaches to the harmonization of legislation in this area, as well as the features of the use of an international instrument regulating measures to combat cybercrime, which have been adopted by most states of the world.