Applied criminology research

Applied criminology research

Legal Approaches to Preventing Digital Terrorist Crimes Against Nuclear Facilities

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Arak University, Arak, Iran. Email: p-namamian@araku.ac.ir
10.22034/aqcr.2024.2045159.1036
Abstract
Field and Aims: One of the most important emerging threats is digital terrorist crimes, especially digital terrorist crimes against nuclear facilities that can be committed. Today, terrorist groups can expand the dimensions of their terrifying operations by using new communication technologies. These groups, using various media, especially the Internet, expose their hateful and violent messages to everyone. Therefore, to prevent threats arising from anomalies arising from the digital space, numerous documents have been approved so far, but despite the diversity of these documents in national and international systems, unfortunately, none of them has provided the opportunity to achieve a desirable situation in facing the emerging threats.
Method: This research, using library resources and websites and using a descriptive-analytical method, seeks to study how to confront nuclear digital terrorist crimes, as well as to assess the achievements and legal approaches governing it.
Findings and Conclusions: Reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening security and peace in the face of emerging threats and new actors and getting rid of digital terrorist crimes requires addressing future studies on the impact of the information revolution on national security, threats from the digital space, improving technical capabilities and public awareness of these threats, as well as utilizing knowledge and information in this regard. However, it seems that adopting global strategies against terrorist crimes by covering the diverse dimensions of digital terrorist crimes will create a new arena of interaction and consensus among elites to create international peace and security.
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