Why do women infringe criminal law on the internet?. approaching the 'gender of cybercrime' from the analysis of intellectual piracy offences

Cyberspace as an area of criminal perpetration in which the normative message is infringed by anonymous and at remote distance subjects, raises new questions regarding gender, such as the gender gap in cybercrime and the gender gap in the variables of traditional explanatory approaches to compliance. Ton analyze both issues, an empirical study has been carried out with a representative sample of the Spanish population (N=613) on different digital piracy behaviors. The results suggest that the gender gap persists and that women are less non-compliant than men, but only with respect to certain forms of piracy. Specifically, illegal downloading of audiovisual content, illegal downloading of software, illegal access to football or other sports matches, and plagiarism. The distribution of explanatory factors of the traditional approaches is similar, and the higher prevalence of behaviors committed by men is discussed on the basis of variables related to moral judgment and environmental factors.