High tech crime, high intellectual crime? Comparing the intellectual capabilities of cybercriminals, traditional criminals and non-criminals

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Highlights：

• This study uses data from Statistics Netherlands, containing CITO-test scores of 143 cybercriminals.

• The CITO-test is a standardized test and has been shown to have a high positive correlation with IQ-scores.

• A discordant sibling design is used to control for unmeasured confounding by family factors.

• Cybercriminals have higher CITO-test scores than traditional criminals and lower scores than non-criminals.

摘要

•This study uses data from Statistics Netherlands, containing CITO-test scores of 143 cybercriminals.•The CITO-test is a standardized test and has been shown to have a high positive correlation with IQ-scores.•A discordant sibling design is used to control for unmeasured confounding by family factors.•Cybercriminals have higher CITO-test scores than traditional criminals and lower scores than non-criminals.

论文关键词：Intellectual capabilities,Cybercrime,Perpetrators,Computer trespassing

论文评审过程：Received 1 March 2021, Revised 16 July 2021, Accepted 15 August 2021, Available online 18 August 2021, Version of Record 27 August 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106985