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The legal world and society today face a new kind of crime: cyber crime. Although this has been a topic of discussion since the 1980s, it was not until 2009 when Colombia enacted the Law of 1273 which serves a tool to punish those who carry out cyber crimes and to provide new legal protections to information and data. This law presents new challenges for the administration of justice in the criminal prosecution of cyber crime. This article uses advanced qualitative research to describe the legal effectiveness of the prosecution of cybercrime in the Judicial District of Villavicencio (Meta). Such work involved interviewing public officials (prosecutors) and the use of the right of request for access to public information. The study confirms the thesis of critical criminology, which considers the perpetration of a criminal offense insufficient to ensure effective realization of criminal prosecution which is, according to this theory, selective. The partial conclusion of this work is that the Colombian penal system is failing to recognize cyber crime due to the absence of complaints or the appropriate investigative mechanisms at the criminal investigative stage. Both of these phenomena are working hypotheses, which could be new fields of socio-legal research in criminal law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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