Cyber Security and Criminal Justice Programs in the United States: Exploring the Intersections

Brian K. Payne, Lora Hadzhidimova
2019 Zenodo  
The study of cyber security is an interdisciplinary pursuit that includes STEM disciplines as well as the social sciences. While research on cyber security appears to be central in STEM disciplines, it is not yet clear how central cyber security and cyber crime is to criminal justice scholarship. In order to examine the connections between cyber security and criminal justice, in this study attention is given to the way that criminal justice scholars have embraced cyber crime research and
more » ... ork. Results show that while there are a number of cyber crime courses included in criminal justice majors there are not a large number of cyber crime research studies incorporated in mainstream criminal justice journals.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2657646 fatcat:lykihakm6fbi7ocr6jqizvvwau