Islam and prevention of cyber crime

Abstract

This research focuses on cybercrime and its prevention from the sight of Islam. Cyber crime is also referred to as computer crime. It is one of the major challenges of fifth industrial revolution of ICT. The governments across the world, jurisdictions units, police departments and intelligence units have started to react to cyber crime in both the way preventive and curative. Since cyber crime is multi directorial phenomena of existing social crimes so it is almost impossible to prevent cyber crime with only a precise legal framework that only identify cyber offenders and prosecute them. The present technical protection measures in the prevention of cyber crimes in the world there are many circles and cases wherein such technology is not available or failed or circumvented by a number of barriers. This study has provided an overview of cyber crime and attempted to find the preventive measures from the ideals of Islam based on the main statement of Al-Qur’an, Al-Hadith as well as the opinions of Islamic jurists and commentators of different eras. This thesis paper have been organised in four parts for research facilitating. Each part has numerous chapters, each of which covers a specific amount of articles for the dissertation. In the first part of this thesis, it is attempted to discuss the reality review of the research. In the second part of this dissertation, it has been strived to present definitions and classifications of crime, criminal and victims. It has also focused on the cyber crime attack tools, causes, process chart and its history. In the third part of this thesis, it has been intended to analyze cyber crime cases and end level user experience. This part also includes cyber crime in social media. In the fourth part of this dissertation, it has been pursued to explain crime and punishment in Islam along with Islamic approach for combating crime, distinguishing features, goals of the Islamic penal system, crimes in the sense of Islam and its category. It has been intended to explore Islamic ideals to prevent cyber crime that includes crimes in cyber space, preventing cyber crime in Islam by Islamic ethics in IT. Different means and methods of organizing cyber crime have been discussed by studying the various incidents of cyber crime, cyber criminal behavior and attitudes, the harm and behavior of the person confessing to the cyber crime. It has been found that every criminal has committed the crime by disobeying certain Islamic ideals and maximum victims have fallen into this problem because of not following certain Islamic principles and norms in his or her personal life. Important preventive measures of cyber crime have been recommended in the thesis based on the findings from the principles and philosophies mentioned in Al-Quran and Al-Hadith. In the thesis it has been argued that it is possible to build a prosperous, happy and secured Bangladesh by implementing the commands and instructions of the Quran and the Hadith at every stage of human life.