Punishment & Society
Last updated ISSN 1462-4745
Punishment & Society 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 Punishment & Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Law in Society and Culture
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1462-4745, 1741-3095 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,520 |
| Publishing since | 1996 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200845 |
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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