The 2 subjects of criminal justice and cybercrime overlap in many ways. Criminal Justice may be the foundational discipline of a cybercrime study. Criminal Justice studies what the crimes are, who commits these crimes, and why certain portions of societies are more susceptible to commit the crimes. In the study of Cybercrime, it builds off of the fundamentals of the study of criminal justice, and applies it to the specialty of crime in the cyber realm. It is stated that in the broad study of Criminal Justice, there may only be a very small section dedicated to cybercrime. There are studies that indicated that a significant portion of in-person crime is now shifting to the internet. These crimes can apparently fall under the category of white-collar crime. This implies that the people initiating these crimes have certain means, such as higher paying employment, and planning and pre-meditation. The overlap of the definition of white collar crimes to cybercrimes is that access to a computer with internet access shows the increase societal evolution of who commits these crimes.

The study as to why these groups carry out these cyber crimes overlaps into these other disciplines. Studying the emerging groups gets into a Sociological study about how society is evolving into more access to computers and connected internet. This also overlaps into Information Technology when discussing the equipment required to carry out the crimes. The study of criminology highlights how these groups of people use the technology, and can even study which countries these cyber crimes are coming from.