Criminality in the Information Age: Definitions on Complex Criminality

• Main Authors: Kerolinne Barboza da Silva, Handerson Gleber de Lima Cavalcanti
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2016-12-01
• Series: Revista de Direito, Governança e Novas Tecnologias
• Subjects: Criminalidade complexa; Sociedade informacional; Tecnologia
• Online Access: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistadgnt/article/view/1488

In the age of information, which data can travel the world in fractions of seconds, the concepts of border, jurisdiction, time and space suffer severe interference. Without limits or barriers, computerized digital world also opens up a range of opportunities for criminal behavior. Today the tecnologies offer to offenders sufficient technology to Enhance Their actions, fractionate Their steps and hiding Their identity, Causing the so-called phenomenon of complex crime, which due to its characteristics absorbed by the modern world, presents a serious problem that spread around the world and cause serious damage to the global society.