Investigating and Prosecuting Cyber Crime: Forensic Dependencies and Barriers to Justice

摘要: The primary goal of this paper is to raise awareness regarding legal loopholes and enabling technologies, which facilitate acts cyber crime. In perusing these avenues inquiry, the author seeks identify systemic impediments obstruct police investigations, prosecutions, digital forensics interrogations. Existing academic research on topic has tended highlight theoretical perspectives when attempting explain technology aided crime, rather than presenting practical insights from those actually tasked with working crime cases. offers a grounded, pragmatic approach based in-depth experience gained serving task-forces, government agencies, private sector, international organizations. secondary objective encourages policy makers reevaluate strategies for combating ubiquitous evolving threat posed by cyber- criminality. Research in been guided firsthand global accounts (via author's core involvement preparation Comprehensive Study Cybercrime (United Nations Office Drugs Crime, 2013) keenly focused issues concern, as voiced community. Further, fictional case study used vehicle stimulate thinking exemplify key points reference. way, invites reader contemplate reality inquiry limits criminal justice process.