Female Criminology in Relation with Cyberspace and Cybercrime

Subject Areas : Media Management

MohammadSajjad Sajjadi ¹ , Abbas Sheikholeslami ² , Mohsen Vahedian Azimi ³ , Mohsen Malekan ⁴

1 - Department of Punishment and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Department of Punishment and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3 - Department of Punishment and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
4 - Department of Punishment and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2023-07-07 Accepted : 2023-08-24 Published : 2023-07-23

Keywords: Cyberspace, Criminology, women, Cybercrime,

Abstract :

Introduction: Considering the difference in the type and number of crimes committed by women, the growth of cyber space in the last decade and women trend toward online businesses, its more physical security and its availability for everyone, this issue is considered as one of the biasing factors of omen crimes.Methods: This retrospective descriptive study was conducted on all computer crime documents divided by year. Data analyzed using SPSS18 software.Results: The study showed that women’s cyberspace crime ratio to the total women’s crime in comparison with total cyberspace crime ratio to total crime was 1/3 and 0.6 respectively (almost double) in the four years of study. The proportion of women’s cyber crime out of total cybercrime was 16.6% and women’s total crime out of total crime was 7.5%. Moreover, the maximum crime was related to fraud and minimum was related to hacking. There were no significant difference between other crime patterns. Conclusion: The lack of significant differences between honor crimes (unauthorized access, hacking, publication of lies and publication of obscene images) with other crimes in this study indicates that women's crimes are in conflict with their feminine role (motherhood and wife) to be less harmful the family system.