Criminal Law in the Metaverse: Defining Wrongdoing in a Virtual World

Alexander Joseph Woon ()
Additional contact information
Alexander Joseph Woon: Singapore University of Social Sciences

Chapter Chapter 5 in Global Perspectives in the Metaverse, 2024, pp 61-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract When the Metaverse began becoming trendy in October 2021, with the renaming of Facebook to Meta, it did not take long for the downsides of such a technology to make themselves obvious. Bad online behaviour is practically synonymous with the internet, and the Metaverse, being an extension of the internet, is no exception. This chapter looks at how criminal law might currently be applied to bad behaviour in the Metaverse, and goes on to discuss we should think about the use of criminal law to regulate harms in digital spaces.

Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-54802-4_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031548024

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54802-4_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().