Probation Journal
Last updated ISSN 0264-5505
Probation Journal 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 Probation Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0264-5505, 1741-3079 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,057 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | prb.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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