{"id":326,"date":"2026-04-17T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/?p=326"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:07:09","slug":"cybersecurity-and-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/2026\/04\/17\/cybersecurity-and-criminal-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Evolution of Crime:<\/strong>&nbsp;Discuss how the &#8220;unique attributes of cyberspace&#8221; mentioned in the first reading hinder traditional law enforcement investigative strategies. Provide an example of a traditional crime that has become more difficult to prosecute in its digital form.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Academic Gap:<\/strong>&nbsp;Based on the second reading, why do you think there is a lag between the reality of technology-connected crime and its representation in mainstream criminal justice research?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Interdisciplinary Future:<\/strong>&nbsp;Choose one of the specialized course titles mentioned in the course list (e.g., &#8220;Cyber and Surveillance Law and Governance&#8221; or &#8220;Insider Threat&#8221;) and explain how that specific topic bridges the gap between traditional social science and STEM disciplines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong>&nbsp;In your opinion, should the criminal justice system focus on creating specialized &#8220;cyber units,&#8221; or should every traditional role (patrol, detective, etc.) be retrained to handle digital evidence as a standard part of the job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Those who are committing crimes online can hide their identity making it near impossible to figure out who it is. This is why we should have some kind of specialist who works only on those issues. Though that would be an incredibly demanding and time consuming job. I can open up my phone, look at my local sheriffs department page on facebook and see daily fraud updates. They are constantly posting warnings about phishing texts claiming to be the local court needing personal information, banks saying your account has been hacked into, and an unbelievable amount more. These things are really hard for law enforcement to do anything about. A lot of the time they tell the victims to be more careful, and then issue a mass notification informing the public of the scams that are happening in the area and to ignore it, report it as spam and provides information about what would happen if it were the real thing and not a scam. But that&#8217;s all they can really do about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Based on the second reading I believe there is a lag between technology related crimes and criminal justice research because there are a lot of those crimes that are not being focused on. Criminal justice majors or people in criminal justice fields focus a lot on crimes and rule breaking, but less on cyberlaw. In school they have minimal requirements for those interested in criminal justice to learn about the specifics of technology-connected crimes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. In phishing, it bridges the gab between traditional social science and STEM disciplines by creating an enticing advertisement whether that be fear, interest, etc. Then using that to steal peoples information by hooking them (their interest) and then taking what they want. This combines the use of technology and traditional social sciences (people).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. I believe that criminal justice systems should focus on creating both specialized cyber units as well as retain their traditional roles. If they have specialists in the cyber field who deals with technology related crimes then they will know how to handle them better as well as have adequate resources to help focus on the digital evidence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Those who are committing crimes online can hide their identity making it near impossible to figure out who it is. This is why we should have some kind of specialist who works only on those issues. Though that would be an incredibly demanding and time consuming job. I can open up my phone, look&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/2026\/04\/17\/cybersecurity-and-criminal-justice\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31883,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mackenzieaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}