International Criminal Justice Review
International Criminal Justice Review (ICJR) publishes peer-reviewed research on crime and justice across the globe. Since the journal’s inception, it maintains a strong interest in cross-national and comparative criminology. Substantively, the journal is particularly interested in publishing research on environmental criminology, immigration and crime, drugs and crime, crime and punishment, organized crime and terrorism, and crime and public policy. The journal accepts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research, while encouraging submissions that use novel data sources, causal inference, and systematic review methods.
Materials Published:
- Articles – Original research producing fully developed findings, with standard Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections.
- Research Notes – Original brief research communication based on novel, timely, or emergent disciplinary issues.
- Systematic Reviews – Original comprehensive synthesis of the research on a particular topic or intervention, including scoping reviews, mapping reviews, narrative reviews, state-of-the-art reviews, and meta-analyses.
- Commentary – Essay critiquing contemporary issues, developments, or controversies facing criminal justice and criminology, including in the areas of theory, method, and policy or practice.
- Book Reviews – The journal publishes solicited book reviews or book review essays (3-5 books) of scholarly monographs that focus on general cross-national themes or specific issues in a particular country.
Relevant Topics:
- International/comparative criminology
- International/comparative criminal justice
- Environmental criminology
- Immigration and crime
- Drugs and crime
- Organized crime and terrorism
- Policing and enforcement
- Corrections and sentencing
- Crime and public policy
International Criminal Justice Review (ICJR) is a scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed research on a quarterly basis. Topically, the journal is particularly interested in cross-national and comparative criminology, environmental criminology, organized crime and terrorism, and research that examines the links between crime and issues such as immigration, drugs, punishment, and law or public policy. Methodologically, the journal welcomes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods pieces; the journal is particularly interested in research based on rigorous and innovative methods, causal inference, and systematic reviews. We encourage the submission of articles, research notes, and commentaries. The journal also publishes book reviews relevant to the above topics and methods.
Eric L. Sevigny | Georgia State University, USA |
Wim Bernasco – Environmental Criminology | Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands |
Vania Ceccato - Innovative Methods | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
Ross Coomber – Qualitative Criminology | University of Liverpool, UK |
Ramiro Martinez – Immigration and Crime | Northeastern University, USA |
William Alex Pridemore – Comparative Criminology | SUNY Albany, USA |
Harry Rhea – International Crime | Rutgers University, USA |
Mamdooh Abdelmottlep | International Police Science Association, USA |
Patricia Dahl | Washburn University, USA |
Stefan Schumann | Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria |
Yuliya Zabyelina | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
Jennifer Carpenter | Georgia State University, USA |
Paige Giddens | Georgia State University, USA |
Mikko Aaltonen | University of Eastern Finland, Finland |
Martin A. Andresen | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
Laura Atuesta | Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico |
Kate Bowers | University College London, UK |
Fiona Brookman | University of South Wales |
Timothy E. Dickinson | University of Alabama, USA |
Graham Farrell | University of Leeds, UK |
Suzanna Fay-Ramirez | University of Queensland, Australia |
Benoit Leclerc | Griffith University, Queensland, Australia |
Arjen Leerkes | Erasmus University, Netherlands |
Marieke C.A. Liem | Leiden University, Netherlands |
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard | Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands |
Lorraine Mazerolle | University of Queensland, Australia |
Juan Medina-Ariza | University of Seville, Spain |
Gustavo Mesch | University of Haifa, Israel |
Kim Møller | Malmo University, Sweden |
Paul Nieuewbeerta | Leiden University, Netherlands |
Marie Ouellet | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
Danielle Reynald | Griffith University, Australia |
Sveinung Sandberg | University of Oslo, Norway |
Elise Sargeant | University of Queensland, Australia |
Jukka Savolainen | Wayne State University, USA |
Jean-Louis van Gelder | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany |
Richard Wortley | University College London, UK |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.