THEORETICAL-CRIMINAL CONFUSION ABOUT WHETHER CYBERCRIME IS PART OF THE CRIMINAL NETWORKS OF ORGANIZED CRIME

Abstract

Organized crime is a structured group that brings together several people in a hierarchical order to commit serious crimes, and obtain economic, material or other benefits, while cybercriminality carries out illicit activities in cyberspace, by attacking systems. computers, with the use of technological tools. Information and communication technologies have allowed the automation of illicit operations, allowing to confuse if these activities converge in a single objective between the two types of crime, or if one depends on the other, therefore, the research problem lies in the theoretical-criminal confusion, whether cybercrime is a part of organized crime, or has its own sustenance due to this new generation of cyber criminals,  with the objective of establishing theoretically the difference between the new cyber criminal generation that executes illicit acts in cyberspace, and organized crime whose actions are materially observable in society. The research was of a qualitative nature that used the historical-logical and analytical-synthetic methods to analyze organized crime and cybercrime in its new paradigm; and content analysis as a technique, concluding that cybercrime is not a criminal network of organized crime, dependent on it, but rather a group of independent technological criminals who venture into another class of platform, such as cyberspace. , and that they would provide their illicit service in response to supply and demand.