Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction

• Main Authors: Chawki, Mohamed (Author), Darwish, Ashraf (Author), Khan, Mohammad Ayoub (Author), Tyagi, Sapna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 593
• Subjects: Engineering.; System safety.; International law.; Intellectual property > Law and legislation.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law.; Security Science and Technology.

The purpose of law is to prevent the society from harm by declaring what conduct is criminal, and prescribing the punishment to be imposed for such conduct. The pervasiveness of the internet and its anonymous nature make cyberspace a lawless frontier where anarchy prevails. Historically, economic va...