Journal Guide

Free Article Access The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is an independent charity that informs and educates about all aspects of crime and the criminal justice system. Criminal Justice Matters (CJM) is the quarterly magazine of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The magazine engages critically with research, analysis and policy development relating to contemporary social, crime and justice issues in the UK and abroad. It provides a space for critical analysis, debate and the sharing of research, ideas, perspectives and practice. The Centre's work is underpinned by the values of independence, honesty, quality and justice, all of which are reflected in the content and editorial policy of CJM. CJM is aimed at, and commissions articles from, a broad range of professions and interest areas, including academics, students, practitioners, campaigners, policy makers, journalists and interested members of the public. Presented in 'jargon-free' language and an accessible format, each issue contains a number of articles on a specific theme, supplemented by a selection of non-themed articles reflecting and informing on current issues and debates. If you want to: * Make sense of the latest developments in government policy * Enhance your understanding of criminal justice, criminology and sociology * Get to the heart of the most pressing social, crime and justice issues * Read concise, informative and accessible articles by leading academics and policy makers * Be informed about theoretical debates and discussions * Have access to a unique resource of analysis, knowledge and learning Subscribe to Criminal Justice Matters today! Editorial Policy: Each issue of CJM contains a themed section on a particular area of interest, assembled by a guest editor. CJM also publishes articles of commentary, topical issues and reviews. We particularly welcome speculative submissions for these sections, exploring contemporary developments in political debate, policy and research. Potential contributors should contact the managing editor, Rebecca Roberts rebecca.roberts@crimeandjustice.org.uk, with a synopsis of 100-200 words outlining your article, its main argument and a clear sense of approach and style. Articles should: * be no longer than 1,700 words in length * be written in a jargon free and accessible style * have no more than seven references * use the Harvard style of references * not contain any footnotes * be written to a well-informed, but not exclusively academic audience * include photos or illustrations where possible. Potential contributors should note that publication, even of invited articles, cannot be guaranteed, and we reserve the right to edit where necessary. Articles, can only be accepted on this basis. Back Issues of CJM are available to purchase for £10. To purchase a back issue, please click here.

Criminal Justice Policy Review (CJPR), published quarterly, is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal committed to the study of criminal justice policy through quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methodological approaches. CJPR serves as a bridge between academics, policymakers, and practitioners by publishing sound research that addresses important issues in crime and justice and examines the implementation and effectiveness of criminal justice policies, programs, and practices.

Criminal Justice Review (CJR), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a scholarly journal dedicated to presenting a broad perspective on criminal justice issues within the domestic United States. CJR provides a forum for social scientists to report research findings for informed policy making with respect to crime and justice through innovative and advanced methodologies and can feature local, state, or national concerns.

Criminal Justice Studies, a quarterly refereed journal, publishes articles that deal with substantive criminal justice and criminological issues. The journal welcomes all articles that are relevant to the issue of criminal justice, as well as those that may be outside the field but have relevancy to the topic of criminal justice. Articles that cover public administration, issues of public policy, as well as public affairs issues are welcome. The journal also publishes relevant literature reviews, research notes and summary reports of innovative research projects in criminal justice.Qualitative and quantifiable articles are sought mainly from academics and researchers in the field, though articles from professionals will also be considered. The journal publishes one special issue a year, with recent topics including Capital Punishment and Minorities and Latinos.Criminal Justice Studies was previously published under the title The Justice Professional.Peer Review Policy:All research articles in this journal have undergone rigourous peer review by three blind reviews plus by the editor initially screening and reviewing the submissions prior to being sent out for review.DisclaimerTaylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.

Criminal Justice and Behavior (CJB), 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 Law Forum is a peer-review journal dedicated to the advancement of criminal law theory, practice, and reform throughout the world. Under the direction of an international editorial board, Criminal Law Forum serves the global community of criminal law scholars and practitioners through the publication of original contributions and the dissemination of noteworthy public documents.

Criminal Law Forum is published pursuant to an agreement with the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Rationale The philosophy of crime and criminal law has been undergoing a renaissance.Increasing numbers of lawyers and philosophers are researching, writing and teaching in the area. Lawyers who are exploring theoretical issues related to criminal liability and punishment find that they must turn to philosophy. Philosophers recognise the importance of the criminal law as a focus for both analytical and normative inquiry. The practical importance of the subject is also obvious, especially at a time when western governments are having to reconsider their rationales for criminalization and sentencing in the light of substantial changes in criminal justice systems and their social contexts. Until recently, there was no journal solely devoted to the philosophy of crime and criminal law. Criminal Law and Philosophy fills this gap, and provides a platform for the high quality work that is being done in this area. High quality content: specific and inclusive in scope Criminal Law and Philosophy aims to publish high quality articles that take a philosophical perspective on any issues in the broad field of crime and punishment. The main areas and topics include: crime and criminalization: the content, principles and structure of substantive criminal law: criminal justice and the criminal process: punishment and sentencing. The journal is inclusive in its scope: it publishes articles with a historical focus on earlier philosophical discussions of crime and punishment, as well as articles with a more contemporary focus. It seeks contributions from a range of philosophical schools and approaches, in particular both from analytically oriented philosophers and from those who draw more on contemporary continental philoshophy. Readership Criminal Law and Philosophy is becoming essential reading for academics in philoso, phy, in law and in criminology who take a philosophically informed critical, analytical or normative approach to the criminal law and criminal justice. It is also an important resource for students in those subjects, and for practitioners with an interest in philosophical approaches to their practice. Through this journal, readers can access the latest thinking by the best scholars in the philosophy of crime and punishment. Editorial Board The editors, editorial board and advisors constitute an impressive, international group of leading scholars working in the philosophy of crime and punishment. They represent a variety of systems of criminal law, including systems that cross national boundaries.

Criminology is devoted to crime and deviant behavior. Disciplines covered include sociology, psychology, design, systems analysis, and decision theory. Major emphasis is placed on empirical research and scientific methodology. The journal's content also includes articles which review the literature or deal with theoretical issues stated in the literature as well as suggestions for the types of investigation which might be carried out in the future.

Critical Arts Call for PapersOf the early issues dating from 1980 Ntongela Masilela observed that Critical Arts was coterminous with the awakening of the historical consciousness that the practice of cultural studies could facilitate in securing the demise of apartheid. He concluded that 8220;This monumental undertaking is evident on practically every page of Critical Arts8221;. Seminal authors who lent their intellectual labour to the early Critical Arts Project included JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink and later Stuart Hall, Tom O'Regan, Ian Ang and Handel Kashope Wright, amongst many others. Masilela continued, 8220;On the eve of the fall of apartheid these and other scholars were engaging 8220;with the intersection of Marxism, race, representation and feminism in an attempt to create new epistemologies8221; (in Denzin, N. Cultural Studies: A Research Volume, Vol 5, 2000). Ioan Davies wrote in Border/lines (1985/6), 8220;Critical Arts's nervousness about what stance would be appropriate to coming to terms with culture in Africa seems to be perfectly in tune with anyone's nervousness with coming to terms with Africa8221;. The early contributions can be accessed via the Michigan State University eJournals project: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/Critical Arts examined the relationship between texts and contexts, cultural formations and popular forms of expression, mainly in the Third World. After 1994, Critical Arts repositioned itself in the South-North nexus, developing the transdisciplinary epistemologies mentioned by Masilela, but now in conjunction with globally seminal scholars and transnational conceptual trajectories, again with the nervousness identified by Davies. Critical Arts interprets cultural studies as a form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic intervention. How does one explain the contradictions, the opposing ir/rationalities, the fracturing of logics which so brutally feed political solidarities at any cost? The exigencies of being under fire make it hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own participation. Our journal seeks to profile those approaches to issues that are amenable to a cultural studies-derived intervention, on the basis that `culture' is a marker of deeper continuities than the immediate conflicts under the fire of which so many must somehow live their lives. They must, perhaps, restore the vision of earlier theorists and historians, for whom `culture' was a kind of synthesis arising from the contradictions between human society and the politics of nations. Under the pressures of globalization, this kind of understanding becomes more relevant at every turn.The journal is rigorously peer reviewed and aims to shape theory on the topics it covers. Cutting edge theorisation (supported by empirical evidence) rather than the reporting of formulaic case studies are preferred as submissions. Our editorial board has consisted of African studies scholars (e.g., David Wiley, Maureen Eke), cultural studies luminaries (e.g., Stuart Hall, Larry Grossberg, Daniel Mato, John Hartley), influential media scholars (e.g., Paddy Scannell, Helge Ronning, Hopeton Dunn, Tom O'Regan), anthropologists (Dave Coplan, Lesley Green), and literary scholars (Ken Harrow) amongst many others drawn from African institutions also. Critical Arts' authors are Africans debating Africa with the rest; and the rest debating Africa and the South and with each other. Submissions are sought from both established and new researchers. Recent topics have included political economy of the media, political communication, intellectual property rights visual anthropology, dance and cultural studies in the Middle East.Keyan G Tomaselli Editor-in-ChiefCulture, Communication and Media StudiesUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalHoward College CampusDurban 4041, South AfricaFax: + 27-31-20-1519Tomasell@ukzn.ac.za DisclaimerTaylor & Francis and Unisa Press make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and Unisa Press and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editor, Unisa Press, or Taylor & Francis.

Critical Asian Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that welcomes unsolicited essays, reviews, translations, interviews, photo essays, and letters about Asia and the Pacific, particularly those that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves. Published now by Routledge Journals, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Critical Asian Studies remains true to the mission that was articulated for the journal in 1967 by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars: * to develop a humane and knowledgeable understanding of Asian societies and their efforts to maintain cultural integrity and to confront such problems as poverty, oppression, and imperialism * to create alternatives to the prevailing trends in scholarship on Asia, which too often spring from a parochial cultural perspective and serve selfish interests and expansionism In this spirit Critical Asian Studies welcomes submissions that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves. Disclaimer BCAS, Inc.and Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 'Content') contained in its publications. However, BCAS, Inc.and Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editor, BCAS, Inc.or Taylor & Francis.

* Submit your articles online!Electronic submission to this journal is now possible. Articles can be considered for publication in Critical Criminology by clicking on the 'Submit online' link on the right hand side of this page. The journal Critical Criminology explores social, political and economic justice from alternative perspectives, including anarchistic, cultural, feminist, integrative, Marxist, peace-making, postmodernist and left-realist criminology. Rather than limit the scope of its coverage to state definitions of crime, Critical Criminology focuses on issues of social harm and social justice, including work exploring the intersecting lines of class, gender, race/ethnicity and heterosexism. The journal will benefit professionals interested in alternative methodologies and theories, including chaos theory, non-linear analysis, and complex systems science as it pertains to the study of crime and criminal justice. The journal offers works that focus on creative and cooperative solutions to justice pr

Critical Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change.Critical Discourse Studies has been established in response to the proliferation of critical discourse studies across the social sciences and humanities. We will consider for publication papers that meet the needs of scholars in diverse disciplines and areas of study which develop critical perspectives on the relationship between discourse and social dynamics. Relevant areas and disciplines include: anthropology, communication, linguistics, sociology, politics, political economy, education, psychology, media studies, geography, urban studies, cultural studies, management studies, literary studies, history, technology studies, legal studies, philosophy, gender studies, migration studies, ethnic studies and others. We also welcome papers which connect critical academic research with practical concerns and agendas, including those of activist and grassroots political movements.The scope of critical discourse studies is not limited to linguistic studies, or articles that are primarily empirical or analytical. Critical examination of non-linguistic phenomena that take a significant discourse orientation, as well as theoretical and methodological papers that advance critical understandings of discursive phenomena, are welcomed.Recognising the diversity, depth, and history of scholarship in the growth of critical discourse studies, no particular theoretical, disciplinary, or methodological "schools" or paradigms will be privileged over others in the selection of papers for publication. The primary criteria for publication are originality, scholarly rigor, coherence of argument, relevance and timeliness of research.Critical Discourse Studies is an international and interdisciplinary journal. The membership of its advisory board reflects the cultural, geographical, theoretical, and disciplinary diversity of the journal and its readership.Critical Discourse Studies encourages contributions from both new and established scholars. The journal recognises that the new and rapidly changing social relations of the current age call for new approaches to understanding the waves of change that continue to impact upon social, political, economic, and cultural formations. Therefore the editors strongly encourage the submission of papers that advance new approaches and new understandings that bridge disciplinary and cultural boundaries.Critical Discourse Studies aims to be accessible. It aims for papers that are written clearly, explain key terms and concepts in an accessible way for readers at many levels, and recognise the needs and interests of its diverse community of readers.Peer Review Policy All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and have been peer reviewed by at least two referees.Disclaimer Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.