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IJCJSD Top ranked Law Journal in Scimago rankings

2020-06-12

The Editorial team are very pleased to announce that the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is now in the top quartile (Quartile 1) in the subject category, ‘LAW’ in the Scimago rankings  - and the only Australian journal in the Law category. The Journal is the only Law journal from the Global South in this quartile.

Internationally, the Journal is ranked 10th in the top 100 open access Law journals, and 1st in the Pacific Region.

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  • Primary Prevention Policies to Face Domestic Violence against Women: Lessons from Australia to Brazil
    Thiago Pierobom de Ávila, Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira
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  • Unexceptional Violence in Exceptional Times: Disablist and Ableist Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Ryan Thorneycroft, Nicole L Asquith
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  • The Importance of Incorporating Lived Experience in Efforts to Reduce Australian Reincarceration Rates
    Caroline Doyle, Karen Gardner, Karen Wells
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  • Perceptions of Governmental and Nongovernmental Actors of Human Trafficking Victims: The Case of Vietnam
    Oanh Nguyen, Toi Le
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  • A Civilianised Summary Power to Exclude: Perceptual Deterrence, Compliance and Legitimacy
    Clare Farmer
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  • Why Criminalise Coercive Control? The Complicity of the Criminal Law in Punishing Women Through Furthering the Power of the State
    Sandra Walklate, Kate Fitz-Gibbon
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  • The Effect of Mass Incarceration on Criminality in Colombia
    José Fernando Flórez
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  • Longitudinal Analysis of Australian Filicide Perpetration Trends: Filicide in Victoria, 1860–1920
    Victoria Maria Nagy, Georgina Rychner
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  • An Expanded Analytical Gaze on Penal Power: Border Criminology and Punitiveness
    José A. Brandariz
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  • “Here I Sit in this Dismal Crypt”: Insider Interpretations of the Canadian Carceral Necropolis
    Jen Rinaldi, Olga Marques
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Current Issue

Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020): International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Published: 2020-12-01
Guest Editorial: State Violence - Practices and Responses
  • Guest Editorial: State Violence - Practices and Responses.
    i-vii
    Tobia Fattore, Kate Gleeson
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Special Issue: State Violence - Practices and Responses
  • Fractured Lives, Dissenting Voices, Recovering ‘Truth’: Frontiers of Research and Resistance
    1-15
    Phil Scraton
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  • Detained Children: Vulnerability, Violence and Violation of Rights
    16-30
    Deena Haydon
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  • Reckoning with Denial and Complicity: Child Sexual Abuse and the Case of Cardinal George Pell
    31-44
    Kate Gleeson
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  • Settler-Colonial Violence and the ‘Wounded Aboriginal Child’: Reading Alexis Wright with Irene Watson (and Giorgio Agamben)
    45-60
    Joanne Faulkner
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  • Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Refugees in Australia
    61-75
    Anthea Vogl, Elyse Methven
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  • The Experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participants in Australia’s Coronial Inquest System: Reflections from the Front Line
    76-89
    George Newhouse, Daniel Ghezelbash, Alison Whittaker
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  • Contested Deaths and Coronial Justice in the Digital Age
    90-103
    Rebecca Scott Bray
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  • Humiliation, Resistance and State Violence: Using the Sociology of Emotions to Understand Institutional Violence Against Women and Girls and Their Acts of Resistance
    104-117
    Tobia Fattore, Jan Mason
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Articles
  • Discursive Chains: How Prison Becomes Real and Chains Identity Movements For a Sex Offender
    118-134
    Elena Faccio, Matteo Mazzucato, Antonio Iudici
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  • The Kilwa Massacre: Critical Analysis for a Southern Criminology
    135-147
    Kim Lah, Anthony Collins
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  • Corporate Greenwashing and Canada Goose: Exploring the Legitimacy–Aesthetic Nexus
    148-162
    James Gacek
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  • Silent Voices, Hidden Stories: A Review of Sexual Assault (Non)Disclosure Literature, Emerging Issues, and Call to Action
    163-176
    Anna Gjika, Alison J Marganski
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  • #Notallcops: Exploring ‘Rotten Apple’ Narratives In Media Reporting of Lush’s 2018 ‘Spycops’ Undercover Policing Campaign
    177-194
    Nathan Stephens Griffin
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  • Planting Hate Speech to Harvest Hatred: How Does Political Hate Speech Fuel Hate Crimes in Turkey?
    195-211
    Barbara Perry, Davut Akca, Fatih Karakus, Mehmet Fatih Bastug
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Book Reviews
  • Emma K Russell (2020) Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing. Abingdon: Routledge
    212-214
    Jace Valcore
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  • Monica Massari and Vittorio Martone (2019) ‬Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans‬. Great Britain: Routledge
    215-217
    Anna Sergi
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The Journal invites 6-8000 word original submissions. Authors are asked to register, read the author guidelines, and agree to the ethics statement before submission. Peer review is usually 4-6 weeks.

In 2015, the Journal met the Scopus evaluation as a high quality international journal and is currently ranked in the Q1 quartile for LAW

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Chief Editors: Professors Kerry Carrington and John Scott, QUT Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

Editor: Dr David Rodríguez Goyes, University of Oslo, Norway

Book Reivew Editors: Dr Danielle Watson, QUT and Associate Professor Marinella Marmo, Flinders University

Journal Manager: Tracy Creagh, Office for Scholarly Communication, QUT