El delito informático, su problemática y la cooperación internacional como paradigma de su solución: El Convenio de Budapest

Abstract

Globalization and economic transformations have made possible the development and massproduction of the new information technologies. Together with this, technological development has given rise to new ways of committing crime related to computer systems and internet. These new types of crime demand a joint, uniform and coherent treatment. Similarly, their specific problems involve transnational elements which require international cooperation. In this way it will be possible to achieve a harmonization of sub stantive law and also a harmonization at the procedural level resulting finally in a solution to the uncertainty surroundingcybercrime. To be successful, international cooperation will need to have certain qualitative requirements. The Convention on Cybercrime of the Council of Europe is the only international solution that exists for thetreatment of cybercrime. In spite of its faults, it has become an adequate tool for legislative harmonization and the fight against cybercrime.