The E-Commerce Crime Prevention in Criminology Perspective

Abstract

The effectiveness of crime prevention strategies needs to consider the factors that cause crime. These problems are formulated, among others: First, how to overcome the crime of e-commerce according to the national criminal law; Second, how to tackle the crime of e-commerce in a criminological perspective. This study uses a normative juridical research method with analytical descriptive specifications. The results of the study found that Act No. 11 of 2008 in conjunction with Act No. 19 of 2016 concerning information and electronic transactions. The ITE Law has become an urgent need for the community to face free markets and even free trade in the international sphere. With the ITE Law, it can guarantee legal certainty and legal protection for victims of e-commerce crimes. Criminology plays an important role in helping the smooth running of the judicial process against e-commerce crimes, namely by knowing the causes and motives of the perpetrators to commit e-commerce crimes.