What is the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime? How does this overlap relate to the 

Technological advancements have certainly drawn some connections between Criminal justice and Cybercrime. The use of technology has increased and enhanced the approaches to criminality in the cybersphere. The internet, computers, and mobile technologies have reshaped our societies. With that being said, there is a need for governments to review their criminal laws and include pragmatic procedures and ways to address online crimes. The absence of a clear criminal law will benefit criminals as we move towards digitalizing almost every aspect of our lives. In the next coming years, online/mobile banking, cloud computing as the future storage devices and many more revolutionary ideas need to be protected from legal aspects and needs to be treated as the realities of our today’s life. 

With the help of Criminal Justice, cybercriminals are held accountable in various ways per laws enacted and the crimes’ intensity. The criminal justice field has had to compartmentalize how they categorize and perceive crime to envelop the cyber aspect. Until recently, no laws were governing what is or is not a cybercrime or the repercussions of committing a cybercrime.

In 1978, Florida becomes the first state to write and implement a computer crime law in the United States. Since technology has a part in just about every aspect of our lives, from banking, education to social, it only makes sense the need for criminal justice to develop a more advanced and versatile cybercrime curriculum in schools for students. Also, developing a strategy for handling the wide scope these types of crimes encompasses. Identity theft is a major crime in this field. A person deliberately steals someone identity and possibly their financial information and uses it for their selfish and personal gain. Cybersphere accords a certain level of comfortability and anonymity for a crime to be carried out. Criminals do not need much to carry out their offense, and it can be done from anywhere, ranging from their bedrooms to the coffee shop in an unidentified location. These present a new slew of investigators’ issues if malicious entities are skilled and leave little to no evidence. Cybercrimes such as this also begin to venture into financial and legal territory, not just crime. Hence, policies need to be developed in those communities to curb cybercrimes when clients and institutions fall victim to the act. Cybercrime is one significant threat that financial institutions. When a financial institution or investor falls victim to this, in as much as they lose revenue, they lose the trust of the market and sometimes have to shut down. Some other institutions do quickly bounce back, like the educational institution, some corporations, and the government. 

With the help of criminal justice, cybercrime can be drastically controlled from all angles.