What is the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime? How does this overlap relate to the other disciplines discussed in this class?
There is a pretty decent overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime, especially considering that criminology (the study of crime and criminals and why criminals commit crime) is a required course if you want to major in cybersecurity or cyber-operations. So what is criminal justice? Criminal justice, simply put, is a system that decides the fate of a person who has committed a crime. Cybercrime is pretty self explanatory as it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like (crime committed using technology and the internet). Typically both of these are talked about in a separate context, however, recently the line has become blurry. Crimes normally not committed through means of technology are now becoming more common, such as fraud and embezzlement. As cyber crimes become more common, the criminal justice system becomes more and more involved with new technologies and the crimes that can be committed with them. Typically experts in the field that the cybercrime is committed in will lead the criminal justice response (criminaljusticedegreehub.com). Digital forensics also help in this overlap of cybercrime and criminal justice as they are necessary in solving crimes that happen electronically. The field is essentially regular forensics, but deals with electronics and data and the science that goes along with all of that.
Of course, cybercrime is a widespread problem that affects many fields and disciplines with the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime also affecting just as many fields. This overlap can relate to fraud committed in the field of banking and accounting, the theft of personal data in the healthcare system, or the sabotage of an engineering companies big project.
I took a criminal justice class first semester as a freshman, and although I don’t remember much about cybercrime, we did talk about the criminal mind a lot. I imagine some of the basic rules that apply standard crime will also apply to cybercrime (with cybercrime being a more complex beast).
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