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

Cybercrime has many definitions based on orientation or perspective; ranging from ethical orientation, harmful orientation, social constructionist perspective, deviance perspective, white-collar crime orientation, and workplace deviance orientation (Payne & Hadzhidimova, 2018). Criminal justice simply refers to law enforcement officials carrying out punishments and consequences to any type of criminal, whether their crimes are virtual or physical. According to an article titled “Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice: Exploring the Intersections” by Brian Payne and Lora Hadzhidimova, “Criminologists devote a great deal of effort to explaining human behavior…The most popular criminological explanations of cybercrime include neutralization theory, self-control theory, learning theory, and routine activities theory,” (Payne & Hadzhidimova, 2018). These theories can often lead to the prediction of criminal behaviors based on previously collected data about numerous criminals, such as their motives, ability to control themselves, and whether or not they are rational thinkers (Payne & Hadzhidimova, 2018). The relationship between cybercrime and criminal justice relate to other disciplines such as cryptography and firewall protection in general. Both of these disciplines were developed as a result of cybercriminals in hopes of preventing them from accessing, tampering, stealing, or destroying important information. Without them, identity thefts, phishing, malware attacks—all of which would be thriving. Cryptography allows companies and individuals to protect their virtual values from anyone online with malicious intent using authentication, encryption, and decryption. Firewalls prevent any harmful sources that may try to affect an individual’s computer by filtering out the good and the bad traffic. Although these disciplines cannot guarantee complete protection, they still provide the basic necessities for ensuring a person’s data is safe from immediate harm.

Work CitedPayne, B. K., & Hadzhidimova, L. (2018). Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice: Exploring the Intersections. ODU Digital Commons. Retrieved April 7, 2024, from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PxKg3D-k775L-9iddNpz30u1Yk7ch6MK/view.