The crime of unfair benefit through information system

The dazzling developments and innovations in digital technology have caused comprehensive changes and transformations in both dimensions of quality and quantity also in information systems; as a by-product of these developments, so to say as a complication and as a new crime type, information crimes have arised. Information systems which became indispensable elements easening daily life, unfortunately are also convenient tools that can be misused for the purpose of committing crime. In order to prevent such misuses, various information crimes are put in order under Turkish Criminal Code (TCC). "The crime of unfair benefit through information system" regulated under article 244, paragraph 4 of TCC is also one of these crimes. The given crime is regulated by the law-maker in case to be implemented when the obtained unfair benefit is not creating another crime. The aim of this work is to define the scope of application of this given crime in frame of this specific situation; to bring a holistic view to the doctrine and application in regard to crime type as the research subject. Keywords: cybercrime, information system, unfair benefit, Turkish Criminal Code article 244.