Crime & Delinquency
Last updated ISSN 0011-1287
Crime & Delinquency is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Crime & Delinquency concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0011-1287, 1552-387X, 2471-3724, 2471-4011 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,565 |
| Publishing since | 1800 |
| Journal website | cad.sagepub.com/ |
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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