Cybercrime is considered any illegal act that violates criminal law within cybertechnologies. A criminal justice approach is taken to be sure of legal definitions of crime. There are several approaches to take when defining various types of cybercrime, six include defining cybercrime from a harm orientation (focusing on who was hurt instead of how illegal the act was), an ethnic orientation, (if the behavior is criminal or ethical), a social constructionist perspective (emphasis on how definitions of cyber offenses came to be), a deviance perspective (would focus on behaviors being defined as abnormal instead of legal prohibitions), a white-collar crime orientation( attention on crimes that were committed during work), and a workplace deviance orientation (activity that may go against employee rules but aren’t illegal. 

In efforts to find the connection between cybersecurity and criminal justice research was done to determine if cybercrime appeared in criminal justice journals, and it was found that the articles did not have much coverage. 

These ideas overlap with other disciplines studied in class as they seek to further understand cybersecurity, how it has affected crime and technology safety, as well as how it plays a role in other aspects of our world today. Within the study of cybersecurity and crime many theories have been formed to not only address the victim/s but also understand the offenders. Neutralization is one of those theories, and is the idea that people know right from wrong but look for ways to justify crimes they commit. The 5 “original” neutralizations are: denial of injury, denial of victim, denial of responsibility, appeal to higher loyalties, and condemnation of condemners. A second theory is known as “Learning theory” and has many different forms but generally is the idea that people come up with various ways to commit crimes by interacting with other people. 

• Ex: criminals making friendships or bonds with people on internet platforms, and use that as a gateway to recruitment.