Date of Award
2024
Document Type
Honors
Degree Name
General Beadle Honors Program
Department
Computer Science
First Advisor
David Kenley
Abstract
Scholars have exhaustively examined the larger role social and cultural forces play in determining and shaping criminal behavior. Many of these scholars have examined a dichotomy that sees modern states as falling into either a culture of broad collectivism or one of clear individualism. The relatively recent emergence of cybercrime, however, raises the question of whether this dichotomy affects a propensity for internalized cybercrime. In focusing on four states, China and Pakistan as generally accepted collectivist cultures and the United States and the Netherlands as generally accepted individualist cultures, this research seeks to examine the extent to which, if at all, such values affect rates of internal cybercrime. In determining whether the individualism/collectivism dichotomy applies to frequency of internal cybercrime, this research seeks to determine if existing criminological research applies based on cultural backgrounds or if researchers need to consider cybercrime as entirely distinct, requiring new theories and frameworks in which to understand and combat it.
Recommended Citation
Wiese, Rook, "Collectivism, Individualism, and Cyber Crime: An Evaluation of the United States, the Netherlands, China, and Pakistan" (2024). Honors. 6.
https://scholar.dsu.edu/honors/6