Technology, with its abundant of uses and constant advancing, has been a big part of today’s societal, economical, and industrial disciplines. Cyber technologies have helped with the advancing and even creation of many disciplines of studies. Similar to how technologies have helped in the education and businesses aspect, cyber have also helped with the increase of harmful use of cyber technologies. Computers, phones, and other technologies are tools that, alike other tools, can be weaponized with enough knowledge of skills. Those who are accountable for the negative use of technologies are those directly behind the screen, and existence of these tools has changed the way people behave. Development of harmful behaviors have put technologies connected significant amount of crime relations. Crime has then become involved with the rise of technological changes assisting with criminal behavior. Cybercrime is then created and defines as “illegal acts involving cyber technologies that are in violation of the criminal law.” The overlap between cybercrime and criminal justice is the weaponization of technologies to act upon illegal violations of law. Criminal justice ensures that people who commit crimes get punished and prevent them and other from doing crimes again. Cybercrime and criminal justice correlate with each other by having criminal justice right the wrong of cybercrime. This overlap is consistent with the other disciplines in terms of deviant behaviors being a possibility in any aspect of the world. In this case, since the other disciplines involving technologies, whether that be business, industrial, or social, there are people whose behavior simply deviates from the social norm. Therefore, an increase in cybercrime is inevitable when many disciplines use cyber technologies to function and the people who controls these technologies uses them for criminal acts.

Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice: Exploring the Intersections by Brian K. Payne & Lora Hadzhidimova