Razavi University of Islamic Sciences Criminal Law Doctrines 2251-9351 11 7 2014 06 22 The Situational Prevention Strategies of Cybercrime The Situational Prevention Strategies of Cybercrime 147 176 770 FA Hamid Bahrehmand (Assistant professor at University of Tehran) 0000-0001-8523-7004 H. Muhammad Kourehpaz (An M.A student of Criminal Law & Criminology) Ehsan Salimi (An M.A student of Criminal Law & Criminology) Journal Article 2020 07 21 Crime prevention is the first step to establish criminal justice. The cyber space for its specific features is suitable for the situational prevention. The necessity of the situational prevention for cybercrime has been multiplied because of uncontrollable space, unknown computer users, target vulnerability, being difficult to spot crime convicts, ease to commit a crime, extensive loss, traffic density of victims and the most of computer users being under-age. Therefore with applying the technical crime prevention methods we can prevent from these crimes in some extent. This paper tries to determine different situational strategies (with relying on Clarke’s 25 situational crime prevention techniques) and through it propounds strategies to reduce crime opportunities and increase the risk associated with offending. The research method has been descriptive and analytic and the results have been in the form of necessary methods in situational crime prevention from cybercrimes.   Crime prevention is the first step to establish criminal justice. The cyber space for its specific features is suitable for the situational prevention. The necessity of the situational prevention for cybercrime has been multiplied because of uncontrollable space, unknown computer users, target vulnerability, being difficult to spot crime convicts, ease to commit a crime, extensive loss, traffic density of victims and the most of computer users being under-age. Therefore with applying the technical crime prevention methods we can prevent from these crimes in some extent. This paper tries to determine different situational strategies (with relying on Clarke’s 25 situational crime prevention techniques) and through it propounds strategies to reduce crime opportunities and increase the risk associated with offending. The research method has been descriptive and analytic and the results have been in the form of necessary methods in situational crime prevention from cybercrimes.   https://cld.razavi.ac.ir/article_770_072fda4f8b59cfc58218e43c66d93cf5.pdf