Introduction
| Author | Matthew Richardson |
| Pages | 15-16 |
Page 15
Introduction
As computer technology has advanced – and along with it the development of the internet – the utility and benefits that they have brought with them have made them indispensable to modern society. With the ever-increasing reliance on such technology and its pervasiveness in personal and professional life, it was inevitable that it should come to be used in ways which society has decided are contrary to the public interest and therefore worthy of disapprobation and criminal sanction. To this end, Parliament has found itself having to legislate in order to criminalise certain acts involving computer technology which did not exist prior to the development of the technology. On the other side of the law, the courts have found themselves having to redefine the application of pre-existing criminal law in order to accommodate and incorporate the novel ways in which computer technology can be used to commit criminal offences.
The rise of ‘cyber crime’ (or ‘e-crime’) is increasingly a subject of media attention in the United Kingdom. The Home Office has declared that the United Kingdom risks ‘losing the fight’ against internet crime,1the revelations that child murderers Mark Bridger and Stuart Hazell had viewed child-abuse images online before committing their offences have led to calls for censorship and/or control of internet content in the United Kingdom,2the use of the international social media platform, Twitter, to make threatening...
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