The term criminal justice is described as a system of laws and agencies used to hold people accountable for the crimes and misdeeds that they commit. While the previous statement is true, the criminal justice system is far more intricate. The field of criminal justice consists of three sections: law enforcement, the court system, and corrections. Although technically separate, they work in conjuction to handle criminal acts. Cybercrime is described as the criminal acts that are conducted through the internet. When it comes to the relationship between criminal justice and cybercrime, they’re intertwined. In terms of the lifespan of cyber technology, it is still fairly new, but terror attacks are not. With the development of cybertechnology, a new landscape opened that allowed for a new type of terror attack to occur: cyberthreats. These new types of threats really began to pop up during the early 1990s, when computers were beginning to boom, and can be expected to increase in the coming years as the internet becomes more ingrained in daily actions. With this, certain areas within criminal justice needed to be updated to account for and pursue cyber crimes. Cybersecurity in itself is a product of multiple disciplines, with criminal justice being one of them. When operating on cybercrimes, these disciplines need to be considered since this is a new medium. When these acts are conducted, we have to understand why it occurred, the psyche of the person committing the attack as well as the victim, how it happened, etc. To make these decisions, one must draw upon disciplines like information technology, psychology, and computer science, to name a few.

Overall, to be a competent cybersecurity professional one must draw upon the conpecpts of related fields. There are many ways the realm of cybersecurity has been impacted by these disciplines and will continue to be as we begin to understand more about it.