Criminology & Criminal Justice (CCJ) is the official journal of the British Society of Criminology. It is a leading, peer reviewed, journal of original research and thinking in the field and seeks to reflect the vibrancy of the discipline of criminology throughout the UK and internationally. The Journal publishes scholarly articles on all areas of crime and criminal justice: from policing to sentencing, community penalties and prisons; from crime prevention to victims of crime; and from the social impact of crime prevention technologies to the study of social harms.

It is now Indexed in the Social Science Citation Index Expanded® (Five Year Impact Factor: 3.042).

Members of the British Society of Criminology receive priority copies of the CCJ and its archives are accessible online.

CCJ is published by SAGE with an editorial team led by Editors-in-Chief, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Pamela Ugwudike and Anita Lavorgna.

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