ABSTRACT
The impact that technology has on criminality and the rule of law is especially emphasized in the realm of cyber crime and digital investigations. The very nature of law enforcement, investigations and the legal justice system has changed due to the introduction of cyber crime (AKA computer crime) and the technology required to investigate and prosecute these types of cases. Cyber crime can be defined as:
a criminal offense on the Web, a criminal offense regarding the Internet, a violation of law on the Internet, an illegality committed with regard to the Internet, breach of law on the Internet, computer crime, contravention through the Web, corruption regarding Internet, criminal activity on the Internet, disrupting operations through malevolent programs on the Internet, electric crime, Internet crime, sale of contraband on the Internet, stalking victims on the Internet, theft of identify on the Internet.
(Burton 2007 )