Exploring the value of feminist theory in understanding digital crimes: gender and cybercrimes types

Lazarus, Suleman, Button, Mark and Kapend, Richard (2022) Exploring the value of feminist theory in understanding digital crimes: gender and cybercrimes types. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 61 (3). 381 - 398. ISSN 2059-1098

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Abstract

Do men and women perceive cybercrime types differently? This article draws on the distinction between socio-economic and psychosocial cybercrime proposed by Lazarus (2019) to investigate whether men and women hold different perceptions of digital crimes across these two dimensions. Informed by the synergy between feminist theory and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF), our survey examined respondents’ differential perceptions of socio-economic cybercrime (online fraud) and psychosocial cybercrime (cyberbullying, revenge porn, cyberstalking, online harassment) among men and women in the United Kingdom. The results revealed that women considered psychosocial cybercrime worse than men. Conversely, we found no differences between men and women with regard to socio-economic cybercrime. The article concludes that psychosocial cybercrimes are more gendered than socio-economic cybercrime, suggesting problems with the meaning of ‘cyber-enabled crimes’, and substantiating the synergy between the TCF and feminist perspectives.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20591101
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2022 09:21
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 17:42
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114872

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