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Journal Rankings

2025-04-08

The 2024 SCImago Research Group Rankings have been released and we are pleased to note that the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (IJCJSD) remains a Q1 in Law.

In journals published in Australia, the IJCJSD is 1st in Law – and 1st as an open access publication

Internationally, IJCJSD remains in the top 50 open access Law publications

IJCJSD remains committed to making criminology research and scholarship accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access practices. The editorial team acknowledges and thanks the contributions and ongoing support of authors, peer reviewers and the international editorial board.

John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Rowena Maguire (Editor) Avi Brisman (Book Editor); Marília de Nardin Budó (Book Editor), and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)

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Current Issue : Vol. 14 No. 1 (2025)

Published: 2025-03-03

Guest Editorial

  • Policing Vulnerable People in Island Contexts

    Page numbers:i-vi
    Authors:Loene Howes, Wendell C Wallace

Special Issue: Policing Vulnerable People in Island Contexts

  • Attitudes of Newly Recruited Icelandic Police Students Towards Diversity

    Page numbers:1-16
    Authors:Eyrún Eyþórsdóttir, Margrét Valdimarsdóttir

  • Policing Victims and Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica

    Page numbers:59-71
    Authors:Cush Sewell Lewis, Stacey-Ann Wilson

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.

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is included in:

  • Scopus - the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature
  • ARC Excellence in Research Australia
  • Australian Policy Online (APO) - open access knowledge hub and information service providing easy access to policy and practice research and resources
  • AustLII - online free-access resource for Australian legal information, AustLII is a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law
  • DOAJ– an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals
  • EBSCO– EBSCOhost Research Databases
  • Google Scholar– a database that indexes websites and files of a scholarly nature
  • Informit - database of expert-curated, peer-reviewed content on education, law, business, health, humanities and Indigenous culture
  • Paperity– a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers
  • ProQuest –world’s largest, multidisciplinary full-text database
  • Trove(National Library of Australia) - an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text digital resources originally published and made publicly available in Australia
  • Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index)- the world's largest collection of research data, publications, and patents.

 

Chief Editors:

Professor John Scott, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia and Dr David Rodríguez Goyes, University of Oslo, Norway

Editor:

Professor Rowena Maguire, Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

Book Reivew Editors: Professor Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, United States and Professor Marília de Nardin Budó, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil

Journal Manager: Tracy Creagh, Office for Scholarly Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia