ABSTRACT
This chapter explores various efforts to harmonize cybercrime frameworks on the regional and global level. It argues that despite all the calls to harmonize cybercrime legal frameworks, the current state of international standards represents a complex system of rather fragmented solutions. Effective prevention, disruption, and investigation of cybercrime requires a wide variety of measures, which should combine legal frameworks, technical and organizational responses, personal safeguards, and education and awareness raising. The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime was signed in Budapest in 2001, following several years of the preparatory work, and entered into force in 2004. The United Nations had cybercrime on its agenda well before the commencement of the Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime: the Resolution of the General Assembly 55/59 of 2001, granted a special mandate to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to develop responses to cybercrime.
