Criminology & Public Policy
Last updated ISSN 1538-6473
Criminology & Public Policy is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,350.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Criminology & Public Policy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1538-6473, 1745-9133 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,350 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,506 |
| Publishing since | 2001 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17459133 |
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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