The British Journal of Criminology
Last updated ISSN 0007-0955
The British Journal of Criminology is published by Oxford University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,341.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The British Journal of Criminology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Decadence, Literature, and Society
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Sex work and related issues
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0007-0955, 1464-3529 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,341 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,991 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | bjc.oxfordjournals.org |
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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