Review of Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes Against Robots
Janko Munjić · International Journal of Law and Information Technology · 2026
Summary
A review of Kamil Mamak's Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes Against Robots (Routledge, 2023), which asks whether robots can be objects of criminal-law protection. The book's question meets this site's work on robot victimhood and the anthropocentric limits of criminal law directly, and the review reads it against that line.
Bibliographic record
- Author
- Janko Munjić
- Journal
- International Journal of Law and Information Technology
- Status
- Accepted for publication, 2026. Not yet issued, so the DOI below does not resolve yet.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISSN
- 0967-0769, 1464-3693
- Reviewed work
- Kamil Mamak, Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes Against Robots (Routledge, 2023). 10.4324/9781003331100
- Language
- EN
- Full text
- Full-text availability not established
Keywords
Research themes
- Robotics and Posthuman Criminal Law
What are the boundaries of criminal law when robots and autonomous systems challenge assumptions about harm, victimhood and legal subjectivity?
- Criminal Responsibility and AI
How should criminal law attribute culpability when human decisions are mediated by autonomous systems, predictive tools or intelligent interfaces?
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Cite this work
Munjić, J. (2026). Review of Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes Against Robots. International Journal of Law and Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eaag020