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Crime & Delinquency

Crime & Delinquency


eISSN: 1552387X | ISSN: 00111287 | Current volume: 70 | Current issue: 12 Frequency: 14 Times/YearTimes/Year

Crime & Delinquency (CAD), peer-reviewed and published 8 times per year, is a policy-oriented journal offering a wide range of research and analysis for the scholar and professional in criminology and criminal justice. CAD focuses on issues and concerns that impact the criminal justice system, including the social, political and economic contexts of criminal justice, as well as the victims, criminals, courts and sanctions. 

Crime & Delinquency is a valuable resource for policy-makers, scholars, administrators, and researchers in the criminal justice field. Each issue brings you sound, practical policy and program analyses.

Leading Scholarship

Crime & Delinquency is a policy-oriented journal for the professional with direct involvement in the criminal justice field. Addressing specific policy or program implications, Crime & Delinquency focuses on the following areas:

  • The social, political and economic context
  • The victim and the offender
  • The criminal justice response
  • The setting and implications of sanctions

Research and Analysis

This outstanding journal brings you a wide range of research and analysis spanning the criminal justice field. In addition to exploring the social, political and economic contexts of criminal justice, Crime & Delinquency examines the victims, criminals, courts and sanctions. Crime & Delinquency publishes original research only. Submissions must not have been published, in-press, or submitted elsewhere; we employ a double-anonymized peer review process, thus we cannot accept submissions as such, as it and its author list may be discovered by reviewers introducing bias to the process.

Thought Provoking

The information you need to stay on top of your field is at your fingertips with Crime & Delinquency. You’ll have access to:

  • Practical research findings
  • Debates on current issues
  • Program/policy implications
  • Future directions in the field
  • Reviews of current literature

In-Depth Coverage

Crime & Delinquency occasionally supplements its broad coverage with Special Issues focusing on topics of pressing social concern. Guest edited by experts in the field, the journal’s Special Issues provide a balanced study of their subject.

Crime & Delinquency is a peer reviewed, policy-oriented journal for the scholar and professional with an interest in the field of criminology and criminal justice. The journal was developed to focus on a wide variety of issues and concerns that impact the criminal justice system.

Journal Description

Crime & Delinquency (CAD), peer-reviewed and published 8 times per year, is a policy-oriented journal offering a wide range of research and analysis for the scholar and professional in criminology and criminal justice. CAD focuses on issues and concerns that impact the criminal justice system, including the social, political and economic contexts of criminal justice, as well as the victims, criminals, courts and sanctions. Crime & Delinquency publishes original research only. 

Crime & Delinquency is a valuable resource for policy-makers, scholars, administrators, and researchers in the criminal justice field. Each issue brings you sound, practical policy and program analyses.

Leading Scholarship

Crime & Delinquency is a policy-oriented journal for the professional with direct involvement in the criminal justice field. Addressing specific policy or program implications, Crime & Delinquency focuses on the following areas:

The social, political and economic context
The victim and the offender
The criminal justice response
The setting and implications of sanctions

Research and Analysis

This outstanding journal brings you a wide range of research and analysis spanning the criminal justice field. In addition to exploring the social, political and economic contexts of criminal justice, Crime & Delinquency examines the victims, criminals, courts and sanctions.

Thought Provoking

The information you need to stay on top of your field is at your fingertips with Crime & Delinquency. You’ll have access to:

Practical research findings
Debates on current issues
Program/policy implications
Future directions in the field
Reviews of current literature

In-Depth Coverage

Crime & Delinquency occasionally supplements its broad coverage with Special Issues focusing on topics of pressing social concern. Guest edited by experts in the field, the journal’s Special Issues provide a balanced study of their subject.

Editor
Danielle Marie Carkin Kelley Research Associates
Associate Editors
Jennifer Cobbina Michigan State University, USA
Jared Dmello University of Adelaide, Australia
Karen Parker University of Delaware, USA
Alex R. Piquero University of Miami, USA
Executive Editorial Board
Max Abrahms Northeastern University, USA
Geoffrey Alpert University of South Carolina, USA
Mia Bloom  
Anita Blowers Florida Atlantic University, USA
Alfred Blumstein Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Robert Bohm University of Central Florida, USA
Meda Chesney-Lind University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Jaeyong Choi West Chester University, USA
Walter Dekeseredy West Virginia University, USA
James O. Finkenauer Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Patrick R. Gartin Missouri State University, USA
Bill King Boise State University, USA
Stuti Kokkalera Sam Houston State University, USA
Jodi Lane University of Florida, USA
Krissi Levan University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
Lin Liu University of Florida, USA
Rimonda Maroun Endicott College, USA
Susan McNeeley Minnesota Department of Corrections, USA
Alida Merlo Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Fawn Ngo University of South Florida, USA
Nick Petersen University of Miami, USA
Joan Reid University of South Florida, USA
Kanika Samuels-Wortley Carleton University, Canada
Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal University of Gloucestershire, UK
Gennaro Vito University of Louisville, USA
Patricia Warren Florida State University, USA
Jason Williams Montclair University, USA
Jennifer Wong Simon Fraser University, Canada
Daniel Pryce Old Dominion University, USA
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