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Computer crimes in Chile: criminal offenses, penalties and procedural rules of Law No. 21.459. Part one

Authors

  • Gonzalo Bascur Universidad Austral de Chile
  • Rodrigo Peña Sepúlveda Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Abstract

With the publication of Law 21,459, the State of Chile updated the regulations on computer crimes, establishing new types of offenses, specif rules of punishment and procedural rules. This text offers, as a first part of the analysis of the regulation, an introduction on the illegal content of this kind of offenses and a systematic development through a special part approach on the offenses of illicit access (art. 2), computer fraud (art. 7), computer theft (art. 6) and abuse of devices (art. 8).

Keywords:

cybercrime, computer crimes, Law 21.459, special part