Cybercrime allows for a crime to happen anywhere in the world. This means that a cybercriminal could commit a crime from one country to another, and this makes it harder for investigators to stop them due to national boundaries. This causes traditional law enforcement strategies to fail since the internets borderless nature makes it easy for criminals to hide their identity, thus causing complications in the efforts to prosecute them. If a person from another country were to commit identity fraud it would be hard for the traditional legal system to track them down and bring them to justice.

The criminal justice system is currently lagging behind on teaching their students on technology connected crime and it is on them. Criminal justice programs only have a portion of their courses on cyber crime, slightly less than one-fifth, this then causes a gap or lag to form between up to date cyber crime and what the criminal justice program teaches. One reason for this is because cyber crime is still everchanging and many academics do not like changing what they teach, or they may find it hard to keep up with modern day struggles since the internet and its criminals keep changing their tactics.

There are many courses being taught in order to bridge the gap between social science and stem disciplines, one such course being internet investigations. This course will help teach many how to look into criminal investigations using the internet. They do this by analyzing different social media websites, dark web, and other online sources. This course is designed to teach anyone even if they have never taken a stem class before, and it builds upon basic traditional social sciences.

In my own opinion I think that the criminal justice system should both focus on creating specialized “cyber units” while also teaching traditional roles to handle basic digital evidence as a standard part of the job. My reasoning for this is because as we continue in the future many crimes will most likely will happen digitally, thus traditional roles should know how to handle digital evidence. This also reasons that cyber criminals will also become more advanced as we progress as well, thus having a specialized cyber unit can help with combating crafty criminals in order to find digital evidence that would be otherwise impossible to find.