Criminology
Last updated ISSN 0011-1384
Criminology is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,570.
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What it publishes
Recent work in 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
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0011-1384, 1745-9125 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,570 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,803 |
| Publishing since | 1963 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1573-6 |
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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