Critical Criminology
Last updated ISSN 0847-2971
Critical Criminology is published by Springer Science+Business Media in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,390.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Critical Criminology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Law in Society and Culture
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0847-2971, 1205-8629, 1572-9877 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,390 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,117 |
| Publishing since | 1989 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/10612 |
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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