The Judicial Face of Cybercrime


 

Liu Renwen (ed.), the Judicial Face of Cybercrime, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, April 2021.

 

This book is a monograph on the frontier issues of cyber and information crimes and judicial practice relating to Internet financial crimes. By elaborating on six types of cybercrime, namely the crime of infringing upon citizens’ personal information, the crime of endangering the security of network systems, the crime of malicious click farming, Internet payment crime, Internet financial crime, and new types of cyber crime, it studies and analyzes the judicial practice of dealing with typical cybercrime cases in recent years by tracking and evaluating the application of the provisions on the new crimes in the Criminal Law, and discusses the hot and difficult issues relating to the determination of the criminal law nature of the act of obtaining data through web crawlers and the identification of property crimes and economic crimes under the new payment method, so as to reveal the judicial face of cybercrime, contribute to the governance of China in this new field, and make China’s voice heard in international law and criminal law studies.

The editor-in-chief of this book, Professor Liu Renwen, is a senior research fellow, a doctoral supervisor, and the head of the Criminal Law Department of CASS Law Institute, the person in charge of the key discipline of criminal law of CASS, a member of the Council of China Law Society; a vice chairman of China Society of Criminology, a specially-invited consultant of the Supreme People’s Court and a member of Expert Advisory Committee of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.