Criminal liability in cyber law : Comparative legislative study.

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor at the Saad Al-Abdullah Academy for Security Sciences - Public Law Department, State of Kuwait.

10.21608/mjle.2025.457728

Abstract

Due to the increase in cybercrime, States have introduced special criminal legislation to combat computer crime, which is a new phenomenon in criminology. The issue of criminal liability in cyber law raises many problems, especially in the Internet environment, which has many legislative complexities due to the nature of those crimes, which are characterized by the characteristics of sovereignty and the difficulty of finding evidence leading to proof as well as the location of those crimes across different regions of the world, all of which led to the international search for laws and legislation consistent with the nature of cybercrime The search in the form of a prime question is: What are the different mechanisms for the procedural and legislative aspects of criminal responsibility in cyber law?.

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