{"id":215,"date":"2026-04-19T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/?p=215"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:36:27","slug":"cybersecurity-and-criminal-justice-exploring-the-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/2026\/04\/19\/cybersecurity-and-criminal-justice-exploring-the-intersections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Cybercrime: Beyond the Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The evolution of cybercrime did not occur in a vacuum, rather, it was a reactive cycle between emerging technologies and legal frameworks. Through my research, I found that existing laws often lagged behind rapid societal and technological shifts. This gap was addressed by forward-thinking advocacy from figures like NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, whose efforts helped establish critical legislation to ensure the law kept pace with the digital frontier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of cybercrime did not occur in a vacuum, rather, it was a reactive cycle between emerging technologies and legal frameworks. Through my research, I found that existing laws often lagged behind rapid societal and technological shifts. This gap was addressed by forward-thinking advocacy from figures like NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, whose efforts helped&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/2026\/04\/19\/cybersecurity-and-criminal-justice-exploring-the-intersections\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":1},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mailanijjonesthornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}