I believe the overlap with criminal justice and cybercrime will only continue to grow as time goes on. In todays world crime is becoming more and more regular to be committed online rather than in person. This trend means it is impossible for cybercrime and criminal justice to not overlap. One popular example of how cyber crime and criminal justice overlap is the dark web. On the darkweb it is common for people to steal and sell identities or credit cards. This is still against the law and is punishable with jail time even though it isn’t a face to face crime. These crimes are becoming more and more popular because it is harder to get caught. Cyber crimes do also happen with physical evidence such as hard drives or computers. One example would be if someone where to gain unauthorized access to a persons computer and download the iinformation to a hard drive. That hard drive would be considered stolen goods and would be the same as stealing a physical item in court. Cyber crime and criminal justice overlap is very similar to when we read about black hats. Black hats are illegal hackers which steal information from companies or individuals. Blackhats if caught are charged in court and can get jail time even though they committed the crime through the web. This overlap can be related to the reading about crimes and how criminal justice programs in the country don’t involve cyber security in their curriculum even though more and more crimes are being committed online. I believe in the future more colleges across the country will involve cyber security in their curriculum due to crimes increasing on the web. Overall I believe cyber security and criminal justice will continue to overlap more and more as time goes on.
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