Juridical and Legal Study about Accessory in the Digital Environment

Accessory in the digital environment is one of the important issues that has not been studied from a jurisprudential point of view. Considering the growing expansion of the digital environment, it is important and necessary to study it. The fundamental question raised in this research is what is the jurisprudence's approach to accessory in cybercrimes? The present paper is descriptive and analytical, and it investigates the mentioned question by using the library method. The findings indicate that accessory is accepted in and since the digital environment is one of the new and emerging issues and phenomena, accordingly, accessory in jurisprudence can be analyzed and generalized to the digital environment from a jurisprudential point of view. Accessory is either independent or considered as an accessory crime. Examples of accessory to crime in the digital environment are also discussed in the form of accessory subordinate to the main crime and accessory independent of the main crime. In accessory subordinate to the main crime, we can mention examples such as crimes against the confidentiality of data and systems, crimes against the accuracy and integrity of data and systems, theft and fraud related to computers. Accessory independent of the main crime in examples such as crimes against public ethics and chastity and examples of criminal content can also be analyzed.