Criminal Justice and Cybercrime overlap in a multitude of ways, most notably being the fact that each practice is related to crime, laws, and the understanding of why and how they come about. Criminal Justice is an umbrella term with multiple topics that make up a massive web of information and sub-categories each connected but with their own purpose and requisite understanding. Criminal Justice is the system of law enforcement that is directly involved in apprehending prosecuting defending sentencing and punishing those who are suspected or convicted of committing a crime. Cybercrime is its own concept that involves criminal activity (such as fraud, theft, or distribution of child pornography) committed using a computer especially to illegally access, transmit, or manipulate data.

One of the more important overlaps is the use of forensics. The application of the scientific method and other scientific strategies and techniques combined with the rapid evolution of technology is what makes forensics an important asset in law enforcement system. Forensics can be used to find purposely hidden information or track down hard to find suspects via their digital footprint or physical one. Another large overlap is the types of crimes both fields deal with: Identity theft and fraud are both huge crimes that can appear in these fields. Technology provides a unique challenge in fighting identity related crimes as there are so many walls a hacker or fraudster can hide behind when online that it makes it extremely difficult to find the culprit.

Criminal Justice and Cybercrime relate to various studies and topics from sociology and psychology to internet science and digital forensics. Experts utilize multiple disciplines in these two fields to explore and explain crimes in their totality; using psychology and sociology to understand the why and forensics and internet science to understand the how which ultimately can lead them back to the perpetrator of the crime.