Criminology & Criminal Justice
Last updated ISSN 1748-8958
Criminology & Criminal Justice 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 Criminology & 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
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Sex work and related issues
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1748-8958, 1748-8966 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,065 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201382/title |
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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