What is the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime? How does this overlap relate to the other disciplines discussed in this class?
In today’s society, computers, technology, and the internet have become a crucial part of millions of people’s everyday lives, from online banking, to social media, to everyday work. With all the benefits that advancements in technology have created, they’ve also brought about new internet forms of crime and deviance known as cybercrime. The relationship between the criminal justice system and cybercrime is understood as relatively new considering the first cyber crime law was not developed until 1978. Since Cybercrime has become more and more common within society, and many criminals within the cyber realm can be difficult to track, it is crucial that the criminal justice system is fully equipped with assets ready to respond to these threats. According to a research article by Brian K. Payne and Lora Hadzidimova, a concern that arises when discussing criminal justice is the overall acceptance and implementation of cybercrime curriculum, research, and studies in school curriculum and academic journals. They also discuss how digital forensics was developed which investigates “cyber, computer, electronic, or other types of cybercrimes’ (Payne & Hadzhidimova, 2019). Based on data in the article, “of the 531 criminal justice programs in the sample, just 16.2 percent of the programs included cybersecurity coursework in the criminal justice curriculum, with a handful of the criminal justice programs offering multiple cybersecurity courses” (Payne & Hadzhidimova, 2019). It is extremely important that as the internet, technology, and cybersecurity grows and changes, that the criminal justice system grows and adapts with it, so that the nation is able to better handle future laws regarding cybercrime.
Works Cited:
Payne, Brian, and Lora Hadzhidimova. “Under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Cyber Security and Criminal Justice Programs in the United States: Exploring the Intersections.” International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences. Of Criminal Justice Sciences (IJCJS) -Official Journal of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018, p. 110, www.sascv.org/ijcjs/pdfs/Payne&HadzhidimovaVol13Issue2IJCJS.pdf, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2657646.