Chapter 1

Cyberspace

The new frontier for policing?

Fraser Sampson

Abstract

This chapter contains an analysis of some of the practical legal challenges of so-called cyberspace and cybercrime/cyber-enabled crime. In particular, this chapter discusses the difficulties of concepts such as jurisdiction and the ability of domestic legal systems to accommodate the borderlessness of the Internet. This chapter considers the nature, size, shape, and scale of the challenge represented by cyberspace within the context of the UK Cyber Security Strategy and recent developments among public bodies to adapt. This chapter concludes by raising the growing dilemma presented by the need to balance security of citizens and their property within cyberspace against ...

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