Journal Entry #11

The overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime is that they both deal with enforcement of laws and maintaining order. In criminal justice, law enforcement officers enforce a wide range of rules and laws in society from performing traffic stops to dealing with domestic disputes where there might have been physical abuse or any type of abuses for that matter. In cybercrime, law enforcement officers would enforce laws surrounding things like, fraud, introducing malware, and damaging property. Cybercrime doesn’t necessarily focus on the law itself but focuses more on whether the behavior hurt someone. Hurting someone in this case would be things like damaging their computer by introducing malware or getting their identity from hacking. Criminal justice and cybercrime go hand in hand because you need things from both sides in order to prosecute someone in a case. These things would include enforcing a law that could convict someone of a crime that they have committed in a fraud case for example. This overlap relates to other disciplines such as enforcing policies in the workplace. Polices that can be security issues like using the work computers for personal reasons. Policies in the workplace could get you fired, but not put in jail over it. Cybercrimes don’t necessarily need to be illegal for them to be cybercrimes, like workplace deviance where doing certain things may violate a rule or policy. Another perspective of cybercrime is having a social constructionist perspective, where people may violate a social norm, these will make people’s heads turn because they are not used to that kind of behavior, people find these types of violations as being weird. Another discipline that relates to cybercrime is the prevention of those violations, like placing policies and laws that prevent those things from happening. Those policies are set to “scare” people to not do them, things from getting fired or written up to potentially spending jail time.

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