La Persecución judicial contra los delitos informáticos en Villavicencio

Abstract

The legal world and society face a new kind of crime. These behaviors are started arguing since the early eighties, however, in Colombia, it was not until 2009 with the 1273 law that manages to have a tool to punish and protect the new legal right "information and data ". This law poses new challenges to the administration of justice in the prosecution of these behaviors. This article presents a qualitative research to describe the legal effectiveness of the criminal prosecution of cybercrime in the Judicial District of Villavicencio (Meta) through a job that involved conducting interviews with public officials and the exercise of the right request for access to public information. The work confirms the thesis of critical criminology considered insufficient the consecration of a criminal offense for which there is an effective realization of the prosecution which is, according to this theory, selective. Computer crimes, this is the conclusion part of this work, not being known to the Colombian criminal justice system by the absence of adequate mechanisms complaints or informal research in the criminal investigation stage. Both phenomena, which constitute the study hypothesis, may be new legal partner research areas in criminal law