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International and National Procedural Framework for Combating Cybercrime

​​The technologiscal advancement has complicated the understanding of criminal procedures employed in cybercrimes. Despite several international legislations and agreements and initiatives at national levels have failed to combat cybercrimes. This study addressed the issue of procedural aspects of confronting cybercrime as contained in international agreements, and the need to align national legislations according to agreements at global level. The study reiterates that international agreements oblige countries to cooperate with one another to ensure that cybercrimes are cross-border by nature. The rationale behind this study is to show how procedural rules contained in international agreements are also adequate and compatible to confront crimes committed indigenously in any nation’s border, thus targeting the entire international community. The study also emphasized upon the need to harmonize the technological development with national and international procedural rules to combat cybercrime. A descriptive analytical research design was used to examine the procedural provisions of national and international procedural rules for combating cybercrime. The data was collected though agreements and legal texts, and analyzed through the content analysis approach to determine the adequacy of their provisions. The study findings revealed a set of general and specialized procedural rules for confronting cybercrime, common globally, such as inspection, search, seizure, reservation, and confiscation, though differing in some respects like the manner in which each nation confronted cybercrime, some of which happen to be traditional. The study recommends to adopt new and modern procedures at national levels to regulate cybercrimes in accordance with their counterparts in other countries, as well as in accordance with the provisions of the international provisions to combat cybercrimes. The study also felt the need for a global framework targeting the entire international community, and binding on all states.