Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Last updated ISSN 0022-4278
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 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 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 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
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Legal case studies and regulations
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-4278, 1552-731X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,406 |
| Publishing since | 1964 |
| Journal website | jrc.sagepub.com/ |
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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