Paper's abstract

Georges Vermelle, Immaterial and Repression
The word "immaterial" traditionally is not concerned with repression. Fundamentally, torts law considers the offence from a material point of view. However, the partially dematerialised activities, and it's even truer if they develop in the international order, are designed by nature to ask this law new questions. This is the case for modern communication's networks, like Internet. From this point of view, it might not be necessary to rethink criminal law all over again. But it seems inescapable to think about the right way to make it fill a mission for which it was not made.

Key Words : dematerialization, international, repression, crime, communication, internet
t. 43, 1999 : p. 213-223