Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Last updated ISSN 0882-0783
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology is published by Springer Science+Business Media in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Resilience and Mental Health
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0882-0783, 1936-6469 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,149 |
| Publishing since | 1985 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/11896 |
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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