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109 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 313 (2019)
Perception versus Punishment in Cybercrime

handle is hein.journals/jclc109 and id is 329 raw text is: 0091-4169/19/10902-0313 THE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 109, No. 2 Copyright © 2019 by James T. Graves, Alessandro Acquisti & Ross Anderson Printed in U.S.A. CRIMINOLOGY PERCEPTION VERSUS PUNISHMENT IN CYBERCRIME JAMES T. GRAVES, ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI & ROSS ANDERSON* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................... ...... 314 II. BACKGROUND ..................................... ...... 317 A. Factors Affecting Sentencing Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ........................ ..... 317 1. Maximum Sentences ................. ..... 317 2. Sentencing Guidelines. ............................. 319 B. Criminological Studies of Crime Seriousness ................ 322 III. STUDY I: BETWEEN-SUBJECTS EXPERIMENTS ...... ......... 327 A. Methodology.................... ..........327 1. Research Questions .................. ..... 327 2. Design .............. .................. 328 B. Theoretical Model .................. ......... 331 C. Results ............................. ..... 331 * James T. Graves is a Ph.D. Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and Staff Attorney in the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center. Alessandro Acquisti is Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge. This work was partially funded by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division, Broad Agency Announcement 11.02; the Government of Australia; and SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, via contract number N66001-13-C-0131. Portions of this work were also supported by NSF IGERT grant DGE-0903659. In addition, Acquisti gratefully acknowledges support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York via an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. For a list of Acquisti's additional grants and funding sources, please visit www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/cv.htm. This work represents the position of the authors and not that of the aforementioned agencies. 313

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