This study has been conducted using a descriptive-analytical method with the aim of investigating and offering appropriate strategies to prevent crimes. While cyberspace has many positive effects and results such as helping do the affairs easier and with lower cost, it has adverse and destructive effects as well. Cybercrimes occur in a space with certain conditions and circumstances, such as user anonymity, the impossibility of identifying the criminals, the space's having no boundary, ease of

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... ommitting the crimes, and the large number of victims. This technology becomes so common that it is not possible to remove it from everyday life, nor is it easily possible to clean up the communities from cybercrimes. Therefore, in addition to the criminal actions and punishments that the legislator should consider for cybercriminals, non-criminal procedures and measures also need to be taken in order to prevent these crimes and their repetition. It is also very important to consider appropriate precautionary criminal and non-criminal measures instead of useless punishments. We try to offer suggestions to help policy makers to encounter and prevent cybercrimes.