The overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime is quite unclear. With the advancements in technology, the line is becoming even more blurred. A significant amount of crime that occurs is done with technology. Criminal justice, in simple terms, is the laws, policies, and procedures that are established and set in place from what is deemed acceptable by society. There is also an enforcement of these laws. With many different types of law, cyber law has also been developed. Cyber law is a form of social control that focuses and regulates on cyber technologies. Just like crimes are committed physically by individuals, individuals can commit crimes over the internet as well. These infractions are known as cyber crimes. Cyber crime is cyber related behavior that is against the law that occurs over the use of technologies. 

This relates to other disciplines discussed in this class because criminal justice, a discipline of its own, relates to and uses other disciplines. Crime is something that isn’t easily explained. With its complex definition, it makes it only more difficult for crimes that are occurring over the internet. Many theories and explanations of crime have been developed to explain why crime occurs and even from the individual standpoint and thinking. For instance, criminal justice relates to psychology because it focuses on the individual’s behavior and what motivates an offender to commit a crime. Criminal justice relates to cybersecurity because when data breaches occur, digital forensics investigators and collecting and preserve that digital evidence. With technologies being used mostly in the activities that we do, it is necessarily true for cyber crime curriculums to be developed. The internet has opened up many opportunities for individuals to commit crimes. The most relevant crime committed is hacking. With hacking, tons of information can be exploited having a devastative effect on businesses. Laws are constantly evolving just like technology is and different solutions constantly have to be redesigned to meet new methods and standards.