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Selected Criminal Justice Journals

Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Strives to enhance the understanding of the complex connections between law, culture, social structure, and society by focusing on social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors.
Contemporary Justice Review : CJR
Peer-review interdisciplinary journal for scholars, activists, and practitioners of social and restorative justice around the globe who seek to design and implement models of justice that take into account the needs of all.
Criminal Justice and Behavior
Peer-reviewed and published monthly, promotes scholarly evaluations of assessment, classification, prevention, intervention, and treatment programs to help the correctional professional develop successful programs based on sound and informative theoretical and research foundations.
Criminal Justice Ethics
Addresses ethical issues arising in all of the contexts of criminal justice, exploring their conceptual, normative, and empirical aspects and the relations between them. Ethical issues concerning criminal justice require multi-disciplinary study and study that integrates theoretical, empirical, and practical concerns.
Criminal Justice Policy Review
A multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal committed to the study of criminal justice policy through quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methodological approaches.
Criminal Justice Review
Peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a scholarly journal dedicated to presenting a broad perspective on criminal justice issues within the domestic United States.
Criminology & Public Policy
Focusing on the study of criminal justice policy and practice, the central objective of the journal is to strengthen the role of research findings in the formulation of crime and justice policy by publishing empirically based, policy focused articles.
Journal of Criminal Justice
An international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area.
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Publishes papers that apply quantitative techniques to substantive, methodological, or evaluative concerns relevant to the criminological community.
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, offers articles, research notes, review essays and special issues to keep you up-to-date on contemporary issues and controversies within the criminal justice field.
Justice Quarterly
Official publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS); a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and interpretive studies of issues related to criminal justice.
Law and Human Behavior
A multidisciplinary forum for the publication of articles and discussions of issues arising from the relationships between human behavior and the law, the legal system, and the legal process.

Prison Journal
Peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a central forum for studies, ideas, and discussions of adult and juvenile confinement, treatment interventions, and alternative sanctions.
Punishment & Society
An international, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control.
Corrections Today
The professional membership publication of the American Correctional Association (ACA).

Crime Science
An international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, with an applied focus.
Digital Investigation
Features cutting edge developments in digital forensics and incident response, encompassing crime and computer security.
Forensic Science International
Publishes original contributions in the many different scientific disciplines pertaining to the forensic sciences.
Forensic Toxicology
Provides an international forum for publication of studies on toxic substances, drugs of abuse, doping agents, chemical warfare agents, and their metabolisms and analyses, which are related to laws and ethics.
Homicide Studies
Bridges the gap between academic and practitioner with high quality, multidisciplinary articles devoted to the dissemination of information concerning research, public policy, and applied knowledge related to the study of homicide.
International Journal of Legal Medicine
Aims to improve the scientific resources used in the elucidation of crime and related forensic applications at a high level of evidential proof.
Journal of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
The Official Publication of the IAPBA.
Journal of Forensic Identification
Scientific journal that provides more than 100 pages of articles related to forensics.
Journal of Forensic Sciences
Official publication of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Trends in Organized Crime
Peer-reviewed, original research articles and excerpts from significant governmental reports.

International Journal of Police Science & Management
Peer-reviewed journal whose principal objective is to facilitate international exchange, stimulate debate and to encourage closer bonds between academic research into the criminal justice system.
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Peer-reviewed reports and research findings covering the theory, practice and application of psychological principles in criminal justice, particularly law enforcement, courts, and corrections.
Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations
Peer-reviewed journal devoted to providing helpful information on handling sensitive police-citizen situations.
Police Journal
Peer-reviewed journal which reflects the constantly changing landscape within which policing operates.
Police Practice & Research
Peer-reviewed journal that presents current and innovative police research as well as operational and administrative practices from around the world.
Police Quarterly
Peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a scholarly journal that publishes theoretical contributions, empirical studies, essays, comparative analyses, critiques, innovative program descriptions, debates, and book reviews on issues related to policing.
Policing & Society
Peer-reviewed journal specialising in the study of policing institutions and their practices. It is concerned with all aspects of how policing articulates and animates the social contexts in which it is located

Violence Against Women
Peer-reviewed and published monthly, is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women.
Victims & Offenders
Peer-reviewed journal that provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for the dissemination of new research, policies, and practices related to both victimization and offending throughout the life course.
Violence and Victims
Peer-reviewed journal featuring cutting-edge and evidence-based studies of theory, research, policy, and clinical practice related to all forms and types of interpersonal violence and victimization.

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