Qualitative study of the causes of criminality in cyberspace (qualitative analysis of cybercrime cases)

Subject Areas : ‌Family

zahra jahbin ¹ (Ph.D. student of Social Communication, Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Afsaneh Mozaffari ² (Assistant Professor of Social Communication, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
nooruze hashemzehi ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Tehran East Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
sayeid mohammad daddaran ⁴ (Assistant Professor of Social Communication, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2018-08-24 Accepted : 2019-01-16 Published : 2019-03-19

Keywords: Cyberspace, delinquent, cybercrime,

Abstract :

Cyberspace due to its unmatched characteristics, has not only been unprotected from the perpetrators of the criminals, but also those who have not been distorted to commit criminal behavior and set challenges for the judicial and police authorities that try to control it. Have created phenomena. Hence, the discovery of the nature and the process of the growth of these types of crimes and the study of their causes and consequences seems necessary. In this research, in order to achieve the main objective of the research, identifying the factors influencing the crime in cyberspace, using qualitative method of qualitative content analysis has been done. The statistical population of this study is cybercrime imprisonment cases in execution of the orders of the Computerized Crimes Tribunal of Tehran. In the period of June 1396, seventy four cases were filed, 18 of which were selected by sampling with maximum diversity. According to the results of this study, the causes of crime in cyberspace were categorized in five main themes (personal factors and delinquent personality, personal factors and victimized personality, economic factors, social factors, religious factors, and beliefs)