Criminal justice and the field of cybercrime overlap in the way that they are both fields in sociology and psychology. Both draw heavily from the understanding of how criminals think and the methods they employ. It has been argued that cybercrime is simply old crimes taking on new forms while others may state that they cybercrime is something new entirely. Either way it is the responsibility of professionals in both fields to catch and apprehend the perpetrators of these crimes. Another commonality between these fields, albeit a negative one, is their lack of support for the other. For most cybersecurity courses that teach fields in criminal justice, there is no NSA designation. This designation is what can draw many potential future employees to the school in the first place. Without that support for more courses that support criminal justice, future employees will simply not be exposed to that information making it harder for them to work alongside their criminal justice counterparts in the future. The same problem also exists within the field of criminal justice. Many professionals in the field are dissuaded from learning more about the field of cybercrime due to believing it too technical. There also seems to be a lack of desire to teach more about white-collar crime in the field, which shares many similarities to cybercrime. With both sides not integrating more efficiently problems will only become more prevalent in the future as both professions are forced to work together.

These fields are also similar to other professions mentioned in this course. Engineers draw heavily on the sciences, similar to cybersecurity professionals, while also incorporating security measures into the development of their systems. These measures are also designed with criminal justice in mind as the systems are set up to aid in an investigation in the event of an attack. As technology advances, these fields and more similar to them will become more intertwined.