As 2024 draws to a close, we would like to acknowledge and thank the Editorial team, the International Editorial Board, the authors and especially the Journal reviewers for their significant and valuable contributions throughout the year. 

The Journal remains committed to publishing critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world.

Importantly, the Journal's criminology research and scholarship is accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access publishing.

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world. The Journal is currently indexed in Scopus as a Q1 in the subject category of ‘LAW’. Internationally, the Journal is ranked in the top 20 open access Law journals and is 1st in the Pacific Region.

The Journal publishes four issues per year, has no APCs and uses Creative Commons to licence articles – making criminology research accessible to all.

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