Criminal Justice
Last updated ISSN 1466-8025
Criminal Justice is published by SAGE Publishing 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 Criminal Justice concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Criminal Law and Evidence
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
- Law in Society and Culture
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1466-8025, 1741-3230 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 337 |
| Publishing since | 1985 |
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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