What is the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime? How does this overlap relate to the other disciplines discussed in this class?

I consider the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime will continue to advance. Today, global crime is increasingly committed online rather than in person. This trend means that cybercrime and criminal justice cannot overlap. A common example of how cybercrime and criminal justice intersect is the dark web. Stealing and selling IDs and credit cards is common on the dark web. This is still against the law and is not a face-to-face crime, but is subject to prison sentences. These crimes are becoming more and more common because they are hard to catch. Cybercrime can also occur with physical evidence such as hard drives and computers. An example would be someone gaining unauthorized access to an individual’s computer and downloading that information to their hard drive. This hard drive is considered stolen property and is equivalent to the theft of a physical item in court. Cybercrime and criminal justice are very similar when you read about black hats. Black hats are illegal hackers who steal information from businesses and individuals. If black hats are caught, they can be prosecuted in court and imprisoned, even if they commit crimes on the Internet. This overlap may be related to reading about crime and the failure of the country’s criminal justice programs to include cybersecurity in their curricula, despite an increase in crime being committed online. In the future, I believe more colleges across the country will include cybersecurity in their curricula as cybercrime increases. Overall, I think cybersecurity and criminal justice will increasingly overlap over time.

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