Comparative Analysis of Domestic and European Legislation on Cybercrime Prevention

Abstract

This article examines problematic aspects that arise during the prevention of cybercrime in Ukraine. Various definitions of the concept of cybercrime are considered, among which the legislative definition of the concept of "cybercrime" is given. The classification of cybercrimes provided by the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime is presented. Attention is focused on the national legislative framework that regulates the fight against cybercrime and international legal acts on this issue. Attention is focused on international legal cooperation in the prevention and counteraction of cross-border and transnational cybercrimes. The general and special reasons for the ineffectiveness of preventive activities in the field of cybercrime in Ukraine have been established. Ways to overcome the identified problems are proposed.

Today it is difficult to argue about the importance of the Internet in our lives. The Internet opens up prospects for self-development, gaining new knowledge, finding a job, etc. We use this resource every day, we can even spend our free time on its spaces. But, despite this, the Internet has another side, the one in which criminal offenses are committed every day, every hour, because the platform provides users with complete anonymity and does not limit their actions.

For example, in 2018, in Ukraine, employees of the Cyber ​​Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine were involved in more than eleven thousand criminal proceedings related to criminal offenses in the field of the latest information technologies. During the year, it was established that the largest number of illegal actors is located in Kyiv, as well as in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Lviv regions.

Although all scientists sufficiently thoroughly reveal the problem in their research, it is still necessary to generalize the accumulated knowledge, to dive into the very history of the emergence and development of cybercrime in order to analyze the actions of criminals in relation to the development of technologies.

Having analyzed scientific research and the experience of various countries in the fight against this phenomenon, it can be stated that this problem is almost the most dangerous in the 21st century and there is an urgent need to improve legislation and carry out explanatory actions in society, in order to further prevent the creation of new groups of cybercriminals and spread of this phenomenon.