While criminal justice and cybercrime are not the same, the overlap between them is that a lot of crimes today are committed with computers online. Cyber crime is the act of committing these crimes with a computer and other various technology, while criminal justice is seeking to bring those who commit cyber crime to justice.

In discussion board 4, we discussed cyber threats and the various types of cyber threats that endanger software, programs, hardware, etc. Hacking, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, malicious code, and others are a few examples of this and carry serious legal repercussions for those caught committing these crimes. Criminal justice then plays its part, making sure to catch those who are responsible and bring them to justice, making sure those affected can recover, making sure the methods that were used to carry out these threats are patched, etc. 

In discussion board 6, we discussed cybersecurity impact on small businesses, which are a prime target for cyber crime. Small businesses often do not have a lot of money to spend on defense against cyber crime due to having to budget for every other aspect of running the business, so criminal justice plays a large part here. Because they do not have a lot of money to put towards the issue, they are a common victim of cyber crimes and have to rely on criminal justice for helping them recover from cyber crime. We also had to theorize how we personally would spend the limited budget, helping us to understand first hand the situation. 

It is also important to note that criminal justice, while it handles cyber crime, it handles physical crimes as well. This means that whatever cyber crime is committed that carries on repercussions into the physical world, criminal justice also deals with that. The entire process relating to these two things goes across multiple dimensions and can be complex.