Information and communication technologies and the new forms of organized crime in network society

Abstract

The network society and the complexity of the changes that have affected digital economy is legally accompanied by the remains and traces of the past, including the addition of positive encountered numerous negative companions. This common, and now generally accepted phrase, encompasses the totality of criminal acts unauthorized affects the use, integrity and availability of technical, software or database computer system or the confidentiality of digital data. Increasingly, criminal groups are today using the Internet in the commission of crimes and offenses that are considered “traditional”. The most dangerous, among them, are new forms of organized crime. The starting point of the paper presents the concept of the role of Internet as infrastructure for new forms of organized crimes with an emphasis on regulative and legal framework for prevention of new internet crimes as well as global sharing of information threw databases in order to fight against criminality of new era. The author is also giving an overview of legal practice of sanctioning of new forms of organized crime in criminal law of Republic of Croatia threw legal regulation and conventions, what actually presents the main request for the efficiency of government repression as the body and at the same time and their placement in the legal framework which is acceptable from the standpoint of the rights of citizens, particularly as well as from the standpoint of current criminal procedure law in today's information society.