Policing & Society
Last updated ISSN 1043-9463
Policing & Society is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Policing & Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1043-9463, 1477-2728 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,604 |
| Publishing since | 1990 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/gpas20/current |
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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