Criminal justice is the complex system of different agencies that work together to minimize and control crime. Cybercrime is illegal acts that are committed through cyber technologies. Examples of cybercrime include fraud and identity theft. Criminal justice and cybercrime overlap one another in many ways.

The majority of people in criminal justice develop strategies to protect against victimization. On the cybercrime side, computer engineers and computer scientists work to enhance computer security through a criminological standpoint. They both use criminal justice to protect people and computers. This relates to previous topics we have discussed such as: systems security engineering and cyber technology. 

There must be an understanding of criminal law for criminal justice, and there must be an understanding of cyber law to understand cybercrime and cybersecurity. Criminal justice is also required to learn how to properly address cybercrimes since they will be dealing with technology crime in their field. Criminal justice plays a major role in securing cybersecurity programs. Anytime a new program is developed, it must be approved by the National Security Agency. It is necessary for the program to have components and applications from criminal justice to be secure. Criminal justice helps identify appropriate responses to cyber offenders. Not only must criminal justice be applied to cybersecurity, but cyberlaw and cybercrime are categories that must be learned in criminal justice. This doubles up on what we learned in cyber technology and deviance in the workplace. 

Overall, you can’t have criminal justice without cybercrime and vice versa, as they are both essential to one another. Criminal justice and cybercrime overlap each other in their fields and in the modules we have discussed thus far. It is necessary to learn about criminal justice in cybersecurity because cybercrime will only increase as our future is depending on technology now more than ever.