ABSTRACT
One of the fundamental characteristics of digital crime (or cybercrime, to use the terminology more frequently employed by the mass media) is its transnational nature, which allows for unprecedented levels of increasingly automated interactions between offenders and victims, who can live thousands of kilometres apart. The international security network uncovered in this chapter has a polycentric structure that involves four main groups of organisational actors (national law enforcement and justice agencies, international organisations, private companies, and NGOs) whose activities converge on anti-cybercrime initiatives ranging from capacity building and training to intelligence sharing and criminal investigations. International police cooperation is the fruit of the coevolution of specific forms of crime (or criminalised social problems) that transcend administrative and jurisdictional boundaries on one hand, and the institutional and technical capacities of states to collectively manage these phenomena, on the other.
