The evolution of crime has made it difficult for law enforcement to do their job. The evolution of crime has created more features like anonymity and speed, which all undermine normal investigative methods. Anonymity allows for offenders to hide identities through VPNs and encryption. Speed makes it easy for crimes to escalate quickly without anyone knowing, which overwhelms law enforcement and their procedures. An example of this include fraud. Fraud involves phishing schemes which targets many from all over the world within minutes, which makes investigative processes difficult.

There is also a lag in the rise of cybercrime and the representation in criminal justice research. I believe this lag is due to structural and cultural factors in criminal justice. Academic publishing takes a while, the peer review, the research, the writing. Criminologists and researchers have focused on basic street crime and theories that have the established for years. So there is not much research on the new crime and new theories that help explain crime today. There is not much research on the new technology crime that has been introduced into the world. Which then creates a lag.

The course “Insider Threat” shows a bridge by combining behavioral analysis and the social sciences. They use technical knowledge of information systems. It helps to examine how employee motivations, culture, and psychological factors form together with cybersecurity.

I believe the criminal justice system should keep everything as it is, and just train the different roles how to deal with digital evidence. I do not believe there should be a separate group for them. I believe that would just add extra jobs, taking away the salary of patrol or detectives, making it hard to recruit people for these jobs.