Chapter 2
Cyberspace and Internet:
a New Paradigm for Crime
and Conicts
2.1 Understanding the context
Because the Internet enables the rapid transmission of data, regardless of both
the distance between the source and the destination end-points and their local-
isations around the globe, cyberspace has extended and modied the temporal
and geographical borders to which we have been accustomed. This has upset
our habits, imposed new ways of functioning, and created new societal values;
at the same time, it has created unprecedented changes in communications
and introduced a new digital order. The size of the changes introduced by
the urbanization of digital technologies can be termed an “information revo-
lution.” The dematerialization of information, ...