European Journal of Criminology
The European Journal of Criminology is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original research on crime and criminal justice. It is the prime European source for authoritative information on and analysis of criminological and criminal justice issues. Launched in 2004 by the European Society of Criminology in partnership with SAGE Publishing, the journal seeks to open channels of communication between academics, researchers, and policy makers across wider Europe.
Crime and how to respond to it remain critical social issues across Europe. The European Journal of Criminology provides a timely resource for world-leading scholarship addressing a wide variety of topics, including development and critique of theories; implementation, evaluation, and development of research methods; analysis of quantitative and qualitative data; and evaluations and analysis of policies and practices.
In addition to regular articles, the journal also publishes up to two Country Surveys and Review Articles per year. Country Surveys summarize essential facts about a European country's criminal justice system, trends in crime and punishment, and major scholarship, providing a resource for others interested in particular contexts, practices, and comparisons. Review Articles present an original overview and analysis of key debates and evidence relating to a criminological or criminal justice topic that have been published in a language other than English, providing wider access to this material.
The journal also aims to publish one Special Issue per year to provide an in-depth treatment of seminal criminological and criminal justice issues.
European Journal of Criminology is available on SAGE Journals Online.
Follow the journal on Twitter @EJC_Eurocrim.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Overview
The European Journal of Criminology is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE Publishing and the European Society of Criminology. It provides a forum for research and scholarship on issues pertaining to crime and criminal justice. The journal publishes high quality articles utilizing varied approaches and methodologies to address a wide variety of topics, including theory development, critique, and testing; replication and evaluation of existing methods, and development and implementation of innovative methods; analysis of quantitative and qualitative data (cross-sectional, longitudinal, comparative, etc.); and evaluations and analysis of policies and practices. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of evidence generated by sound social science methods to test propositions about and analyse and critique criminological ideas and criminal justice policies and practices, going beyond the mapping of relationships, descriptively or statistically, to enhance our understanding of constructs and why and how they are related. Priority is given to articles that address criminological and criminal justice topics of relevance to European criminology and criminal justice (within and beyond the EU), including comparative analyses which include a European element. The relevance for European criminology or criminal justice should be clear in the scope of the article.
Key criteria
Please note that these are not exhaustive and are intended to serve as a guide, not as a checklist.
The fundamental criteria for all articles published in the European Journal of Criminology it that they address criminological and criminal justice topics of relevance to European criminology and criminal justice from a strong social scientific perspective, contributing to debate through analytical and critical engagement with the material they present. Being analytical refers to examining a subject or idea thoroughly and in detail; being critical refers to examining a subject or idea’s merits and faults thoroughly and in detail.
Articles should be of relevance to European criminology and criminal justice. This means they should have clear links to the European context. Thus articles that focus exclusively on research, events and perspectives relating to non-European countries/matters do not meet this criteria. This is a policy of the European Society of Criminology, which the European Journal of Criminology represents. We encourage comparative analyses with a core European element; if a European country is not one of the comparative sites, it will be important that the relevance for European criminology or criminal justice is a key theme of the paper. Likewise articles that address more general or global topics must still explicitly discuss their specific relevance for European criminology and criminal justice.
Articles should focus on criminological and criminal justice issues. Topics from related disciplines such as law and forensic science can be relevant for criminology and criminal justice, but the latter needs to be the focus of an article for it to fit within the scope of the journal.
Articles should reflect a rigorous social scientific approach, whether the material is theoretical or empirical, or the methods quantitative or qualitative. Articles should make an original and substantive contribution to knowledge, either theoretically by enhancing our understanding of constructs and why and how they are related, methodologically by developing or applying innovative approaches, or empirically through rigorous research.
Articles should contribute to debate in European criminology or criminal justice by presenting theoretical or conceptual developments, methodological advances, or findings that test suppositions about aspects of crime or criminal justice. This also applies to systematic review articles. All articles should go beyond the mapping of relationships, descriptively or statistically, to enhance our understanding of constructs, why and how they are related, and the implications.
Kyle Treiber | Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK |
Beth Hardie | Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK |
Gaëtan Cliquennois | French National Centre for Scientific Research, University of Strasbourg and DCS, Law and Social Change, University of Nantes, France |
Anna Di Ronco | Department of Sociology and Centre for Criminology, University of Essex, England |
Adam Edwards | School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK |
Rok Hacin | Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia |
Claire Hamilton | School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Ireland |
Amy Nivette | Department of Sociology, Utrecht University and Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands |
Marcelo F Aebi | University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
Richard Bennett | American University, USA |
Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld | Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Leonidas K. Cheliotis | London School of Economics, UK |
Margarita Dobrynina | Law Institute of Lithuania, Lithuania and University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
Felipe Estrada Dörner | Stockholm University, Sweden |
Stephan Farrall | University of Derby, UK |
Susanne Karstedt | Griffith University, Australia |
Jan W de Keijser | Leiden University, Netherlands |
Hans-Jürgen Kerner | University of Tübingen, Germany |
Janne Kivivuori | University of Helsinki, Finland |
Edward Kleemans | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Krzysztof Piotr Krajewski | Jagiellonian University, Poland |
Miklós Levay | Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Hungary |
Dario Melossi | University of Bologna, Italy |
Laura Piacentini | University of Strathclyde, UK |
Julian Roberts | University of Oxford, UK |
Juri Saar | University of Tartu, Estonia |
Alenka Selih | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Alex Sutherland | The Behavioural Insights Team, UK |
Robert Svensson | Malmö University, Sweden |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.