Behavioral Sciences & the Law
Last updated ISSN 0735-3936
Behavioral Sciences & the Law is published by Wiley in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Behavioral Sciences & the Law concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Jury Decision Making Processes
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0735-3936, 1099-0798 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,400 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,437 |
| Publishing since | 1943 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10990798 |
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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