Research Guides: Criminal Justice and Criminology: Journals

Criminal Justice Journals

Below is a selection of top journals covering criminology and criminal justice. To find additional journals, browse the category heading for Criminology, Penology, and Juvenile Delinquency.

American Journal of Criminal Justice
Focuses on criminal justice topics & issues, including the criminal justice process, interplay between system components, problems & solutions, innovative practices, policy development & implementation, evaluative research, & other related interests. Coverage: 1984-present.
Annual Review of Criminology
The Annual Review of Criminology provides comprehensive reviews of significant developments in the multidisciplinary field of criminology, defined as the study of both the nature of criminal behavior and societal reactions to crime. Coverage: 2018 - present.
British Journal of Criminology
The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society is one of the world's top criminology journals. It publishes work of the highest quality from around the world and across all areas of criminology.
Criminal Justice and Behavior
Criminal Justice and Behavior 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.
Criminology
Criminology is devoted to the study of crime and deviant behavior. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice. Coverage: 1971 - present.
Criminology & Public Policy
Criminology & Public Policy is devoted to the study of criminal justice policy and practice. The journal’s central objective is to strengthen the role of research in the formulation of crime and justice policy through publishing empirically based, policy-focused articles. Coverage: 2001-present.
Feminist Criminology
Feminist Criminology is an innovative journal that is dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology.
Justice Quarterly
Justice Quarterly is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and interpretive studies of issues related to criminal justice, crime, and criminal behavior. Coverage: 1984-present.
Policing and Society
A journal specializing 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.
Women & Criminal Justice
Women & Criminal Justice critically examines the issues of crime, victimization and the criminal justice system as they pertain to differences among females and males, or as they pertain to the social and cultural construction of gender.