Cybercrime in Iranian Criminal Law: Typology and Statistical Data Review

The cybercrime possesses a great capacity to metamorphosis. This criminality encompasses a wide range of activities, some of them are totally new, other are old and they find a new field of practice with the system and the computer networks. The classification of these offenses contributes to a better understanding of their nature and their modality. Several criteria make it possible to classify these offenses: the system's role and the computer networks in the offenses making as a means or as a support; the aim and the content of these offenses and the combination of these criteria. In this article, we classify offenses provided by law about cybercrime according to the following criteria: the period of emergence of criminalization and the content of these offenses. In the last part of this article we review the data provided by the Iranian cyber-police (FATA) from statistics concerning cybercrime committed between 2012 and 2016.