Overview
The American Journal of Criminal Justice is a peer-reviewed journal offering extensive research on diverse criminal justice topics and issues.
- Provides coverage of the criminal justice process, including the formal and informal interplay between system components.
- Explores innovative practices, policy development, and implementation in the criminal justice field.
- Recognizes problems and solutions experienced by various segments of populations within criminal justice.
- Publishes original articles using a broad range of methodologies and perspectives.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- J. Mitchell Miller
- Impact factor
- 5.6 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 4.0 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 30 days
- Downloads
- 336,932 (2023)
Societies and partnerships
Latest articles
Journal updates
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American Journal of Criminal Justice Article of the Year
"Policing the Cybercrime Script of Darknet Drug Markets: Methods of Effective Law Enforcement Intervention" has been announced as the 2022 American Journal of Criminal Justice Article of the Year! Authored by Eric Jardin (Virginia Tech, USA), the paper will be free to access for 8 weeks beginning on October 3rd. Click the heading to learn more!
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Impact Factor Jumps to 6.037
The American Journal of Criminal Justice earned a 2021 Impact Factor of 6.037 from Clarivate Analytics. It now sits in the first quartile of the category Criminology & Penology, and is ranked third among all journals in this category worldwide. Congratulations are due to all involved!
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1936-1351
- Print ISSN
- 1066-2316
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- Google Scholar
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PsycINFO
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information