Problem przestępczości elektronicznej

The article introduce a genesis and a specificity of electronic crimes, whete its speci­ficity results among all from the fact, that the place where they are committed, is not always the same "place" in a common sense. U sing the Internet, as a places of the committing an offence, is particularly dangerous due to the very high number of potential victims and problems with low detectability of crimes and its offender. The global network is reducing the effectiveness of mechanisms of the identification. The cyberspace is deprived of all physical attributes of someoneśfpresence, so as: fingerprints, voice, im age. The aim of the article is showing the range and the scale of electronic crime in the world, as well as its effects