Annual Review of Criminology
Last updated ISSN 2572-4568
Annual Review of Criminology is published by Annual Reviews in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Annual Review of Criminology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Annual Reviews |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2572-4568 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 194 |
| Publishing since | 2017 |
| Journal website | www.annualreviews.org/journal/criminol |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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