The role of international criminal policy in combating cyber-extortion crimes

Abstract

The research aims to address the crime of electronic blackmail in accordance with what is required by international criminal policy, whether in its substantive or procedural aspects and due to its modernity, and many national legislations were keen to stipulate and criminalize it, and through this study I reached several results, the most important of which are:

1- The crime of electronic blackmail is a form of electronic crime that is carried out using information networks, modern devices, and its applications.

2- The crime of electronic blackmail has different ways of committing it, and it also has its own methods that differ from traditional blackmail.

3- The crime of electronic blackmail is a cross-border crime, as the blackmailer may be in a country in the world, and blackmail a victim in the farthest part of the world.