Differences in Students’ Attitudes Towards Jordanian and Qatari Cybercrime Laws

The study examines country and gender differences in attitudes toward Jordanian and Qatari cybercrime laws. The study sample comprised 704 participants from Jordan and Qatar, with 494 (70%) Jordanian and 210 (30%) Qatari. Of them, 377 (53.6%) were males, and 327 (46.4%) were females. Participants (143, 20%) reported being victims of cybercrimes, and 37 (5%) were perpetrators. The study developed a research questionnaire as its tool. As estimated by Cronbach’s α, reliability was 0.956 for all scales. The validity, measured by the correlation between the attitude scale and knowledge index, was r = 0.180, α = 0.00. The ANOVA analysis comparing attitudes toward cybercrime law (ATCL) showed that students from Qatar had more negative views than those from Jordan (66 compared to 30); there were significant differences in ATCL between Jordan and Qatar (F = 237.579, α = .036). An ANOVA analysis of the mean gender differences in ATCL revealed that males were more negative about it than females (45 vs. 35). Significant differences were found between males and females in ATCL (F = 14.917, α < .000).