The Gender Gap and Cybercrime: An Examination of College Students’ Online Offending

Donner, Christopher M.

doi:10.1080/15564886.2016.1173157

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“…Framed with the TCF, this article has demonstrated that psychosocial cybercrimes could be more gendered than those which are socioeconomic. For example, as previously mentioned, Donner's () paper demonstrated that digital piracy (socioeconomic cybercrime) was perceived similarly across sexes. On the flipside, as regards a range of psychosocial crimes such as cyber‐bullying (e.g., Cunningham et al .…”

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 80%

“…It contends that men were more likely to engage in online offending and that this gender gap was reasonably consistent across the board. In particular, this study found that men were more likely to engage in online harassment (psychosocial) and digital piracy (such as illegal downloads of items, i.e., socioeconomic), irrespective of self‐control level, whereas “higher immersion into the cyber‐environment resulted in men and women having similar rates of digital piracy” (i.e., a socioeconomic cybercrime) (Donner , p.570), which suggests that perhaps socioeconomic cybercrime is less gendered than online harassment (psychosocial cybercrime) if viewed from the lens of the TCF.…”

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 95%

“…Accordingly, this study's findings could have been a little more clearly and directly expressed had a more gender‐sensitive framework been applied in place of a mainstream criminology lens. For instance, Donner (, p.571) acknowledged, “the findings revealed that, regardless of self‐control level, men had higher rates [than women] of online offending almost across the board, which is inconsistent with the theory. Thus, it appears that gender may be more useful in explaining cybercrime than self‐control, although self‐control is more important for low self‐control individuals, as it eliminated the gender difference in digital piracy”.…”

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Youth cultures and the exaggerated masculinity inherent in youth groups may have shaped the pattern of their results. Additionally, as some researchers (Donner ; James ) have observed, while it may be unclear whether there are consistent gender trends in cyber‐bullying, the more diffused lifestyles available in cyberspace complicate any gender trends within bullying in the virtual world. “Indeed, greater computer expertise may resolve the power imbalance associated with traditional bullying, conferring greater power unto those who might otherwise lose a schoolyard fight or a ‘real world’ popularity contest” (Cartwright , p.2).…”

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, it appears that gender may be more useful in explaining cybercrime than self‐control, although self‐control is more important for low self‐control individuals, as it eliminated the gender difference in digital piracy”. The author then recommends that “future researchers should consider utilising a bond‐based measure of self‐control, which would be more theoretically consistent with the revised version of the theory” (Donner , p.572). These obscurities in reporting research findings nevertheless echo the suggestion that theories may be supportive or obstructive to the researchers’ analytic capacity when they have more faith in the correctness of the theories than in the authenticity of their data (Greenwald et al .…”

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

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This article is a theoretical treatment of feminist epistemology of crime, which advocates the centrality of gender as a theoretical starting point for the investigating of digital crimes. It does so by exploring the synergy between the feminist perspectives and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF) (which argues that three possible factors motivate cybercrimes – socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical) to critique mainstream criminology and the meaning of the term “cybercrime”. Additionally, the article examines gender gaps in online harassment, cyber‐bullying, cyber‐fraud, revenge porn, and cyber‐stalking to demonstrate that who is victimised, why, and to what effect are the critical starting points for the analysis of the connections between gender and crimes. In turn, it uses the lens of intersectionality to acknowledge that, while conceptions of gender and crime interact, they intersect with other categories (e.g., sexuality) to provide additional layers of explanation. To nuance the utilitarian value of the synergy between the TCF and the feminist perspectives, the focus shifts to a recent case study (which compared socioeconomic and psychosocial cybercrimes). The article concludes that, while online and offline lives are inextricably intertwined, the victimisations in psychosocial cybercrimes may be more gendered than in socioeconomic cybercrimes. These contributions align the TCF to the feminist epistemology of crime in their attempt to move gender analysis of digital crimes “from margin to centre”.

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Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Gender Gap Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

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Miller

2019

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Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory

Zhou,

Liu,

Lee

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Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Social learning theory has been widely implemented to understand cyber deviance. Nevertheless, the antecedent scholarship homogenously nested in the perspective of offending specification, leaving the offending versatility thesis unattained. The lack of such studies may undermine the capability of comprehensively understanding the social learning patterns of online offending. Using a sample of 3741 Chinese college students, this study estimated an array of binary logistic regressions to compare the effects of traditional and online social learning in four types of online offending (online sexual harassment, cyberbullying, hacking, and digital piracy). The results suggest that offending versatility and offending specification co‐exist in the social learning process of cyber deviance, while offending specification explains a marginally greater variance. Besides, online learning variables act as potential mediators in the relationships between traditional learning and cyber deviance. Furthermore, traditional social learning shows greater predictive power in cyber‐enabled crimes than in cyber‐dependent crimes. Our study provides fresh empirical evidence for the non‐exclusive association between offending versatility and offending specification in the social learning process of cyber deviance.

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The Gender Gap and Cybercrime: An Examination of College Students’ Online Offending

Cited by 33 publications

References 48 publications

Just married: the synergy between feminist criminology and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework

Just married: the synergy between feminist criminology and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework

Female Cyberoffending

Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory

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