Criminal Law and Philosophy
Last updated ISSN 1871-9791
Criminal Law and Philosophy is published by Springer Science+Business Media in neuroscience. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Criminal Law and Philosophy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Free Will and Agency
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Law in Society and Culture
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Criminal Law and Evidence
- Legal principles and applications
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1871-9791, 1871-9805 |
| Subject area | Neuroscience |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 809 |
| Publishing since | 2006 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/11572 |
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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