المجرم الإلكتروني الدوافع والأنماط

Abstract

The tremendous development of information and communication technology has produced a new class of offenders whose characteristics and motives differ from other offenders known in criminology. Hence the importance of the study, which sought to understand the patterns, motives, and characteristics of the cybercriminal, which will allow punitive policy makers to develop preventive and punitive mechanisms to prevent perpetrators from carrying out their criminal activities, and to protect public interests in society. Based on this, several questions arose, perhaps the most prominent of which is: What is meant by cybercriminal? Are there special features that distinguish it from other offenders? And what are the most prominent motives and factors behind their criminal behavior. Faced with these questions and using the descriptive approach, the study reached several results, perhaps the most prominent of which are: The rapid increase in various activities across communication networks has become natural for the cybercriminal to constitute the largest percentage among its users, even if their characteristics, motives, and reasons for committing their crimes differ, and the study concluded that most of them were either For reasons related to the social interactions of users or for reasons related to the inability to self-control or psychological formation, interest, knowledge and various skills. The study also showed that the patterns of the cybercriminal varied and differed according to the desired goals of the criminal activities.