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KRIMINALNI POTENCIJAL FENOMENA DARKNET-A
THE DARKNET PHENOMENON CRIMINAL POTENTIAL

Author(s): Sergej Uljanov, Milan Milošević
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Security and defense, Criminology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Fakultet za kriminalistiku, kriminologiju i sigurnosne studije Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: the Darknet; the Deep Web; the World Wide Web; criminal hub; criminal market; polycriminality;

Summary/Abstract: Reason for writing and research problem (s): Nowadays global communication possibilities have inspired the authors to pay attention to having parts of world informatics network suitable enough to be exposed criminally. Aims of the paper (scientific and/or social): Subsequently, the article’s goal sticks to research of the criminal potential of a zone hidden within the World Wide Web. Methodology/Design: Following the methodological model of establishing the phenomenological determinants from general through special to unique, the authors try to define terminological range of the most inscrutable bit within the hidden Web by doing distinction among the terms of the World Wide Web, the surface Web and the Deep Web with scoping their relation. Finally, at unique stage, the authors show the Darknet phenomenon and particularity of its relation to the Deep Web. Research/Paper limitation: The authors are fully aware of the exploration limits that could be supportive to the arbitrary clues on global communication as necessary mode of human rights and freedoms being exposed socialized like. Results/Findings: The criminal potential of the Darknet is to be established by the authors through influences of criminal hubs, criminal markets and poly-criminality being presented intensively as much as internationally. General Conclusion: Pointing to the Darknet existence and its criminal potential, as the authors deem, creates essential ground to further researching of clandestine ways to communicate globally and their criminalization. Research/Paper Validity: Thus, the authors intend undoubtedly to show in the article clearly the criminal danger of hidden zones of possibility to communicate globally and its devastating influence to the values of modern society.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 101-115
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian