Traditional values as legally protected goods also in cyberspace: about the confinement caused by the COVID-19 health crisis

Abstract

: In the absence of criminological studies, reports from specialized institutions and the journalistic sector state 
that the confinement to which the world population has been subjected by the COVID-19 crisis, far from eliminating 
all criminal activity, has resulted in a shift of criminal opportunity to the Internet and has led citizens to introduce into 
cyberspace more and more basic values for their personal and social development. Given this phenomenon, this paper 
carries out an analysis of the most common and relevant cybercrimes during confinement and defends that the values 
traditionally protected by criminal law are the legally protected goods by these crimes, against the voices that advocate 
the protection of novel values such as data, information or information systems.