The main overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime is technology. With technology comes cybersecurity; cybersecurity be definition is an interdisciplinary approach to solving security issues faced in the modern world. Cybersecurity aims to protect and resolve incidents, threats, and actual crimes through this multidisciplinary approach. Criminal justice as a discipline also try to accomplish these same goals, but in a different environment. Brian K. Payne and Lora Hadzhidimova in a paper on the intersecting of cybersecurity and criminal justice provide ten ways that criminologist can help cybersecurity (Hadzhidimova). They included measures such as defining cyber crime in its various ways, measurements of victimization and offending, and interdisciplinary research to name a few. Payne and Hadzhidimova also proposed that the most popular ways to explain cybercrime through theories  are expressed in the neutralization theory, self-control theory, learning theory, and routine activities theory. (Hadzhidimova) also says “an understanding of cyber law is needed in order to fully understand cybercrime and cybersecurity.” This comment leads us back to the beginning on how criminologist can help cyber security.  There is still much work to be done if we are to reach a common lexicon of language that can be easily go from criminal justice to cybersecurity. Right now  “ Less than one-fifth of criminal justice programs include cybercrime coursework in their curricula and about the same proportion of cybersecurity programs include criminal justice coursework in their curricula” (Hadzhidimova). Headway is being made though and with even more offerings between the two disciplines offered more at today’s institutions of higher learning we can achieve equilibrium.

This overlap can also be seen throughout the course from the work on information technology and risk management, to the ICS and SCADA systems of later lectures. Almost all aspects of our lives today can benefit from the overlapping of cybersecurity into the many parts of our daily lives.

Works Cited

Hadzhidimova, Brian K. Payne & Lora. “Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice: Exploring the Intersections.” INPRESS at International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences (n.d.): 2. document.