Cybercrime and Jurisdiction: A global survey

Cybercrime is remarkably varied and widespread, and financial losses range from a few hundred dollars being extorted to multi-million dollar cyberfraud cases. Increasingly, cybercrime also involves the risk of terrorist attacks bringing down a major part of the Internet. Countries are discovering that it may be impossible for them to prosecute cybercriminals. Cybercrimes, unlike ‘ordinary’ crimes, are transnational in nature and it is often difficult to say just where they take place. This ...