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Crime & Delinquency (CAD), peer-reviewed and published 8 times per year, is a policy-oriented journal offering a wide range of research and analysis for the scholar and professional in criminology and criminal justice. CAD focuses on issues and concerns that impact the criminal justice system, including the social, political and economic contexts of criminal justice, as well as the victims, criminals, courts and sanctions.
Crime & Delinquency is a valuable resource for policy-makers, scholars, administrators, and researchers in the criminal justice field. Each issue brings you sound, practical policy and program analyses.
Leading Scholarship
Crime & Delinquency is a policy-oriented journal for the professional with direct involvement in the criminal justice field. Addressing specific policy or program implications, Crime & Delinquency focuses on the following areas:
Research and Analysis
This outstanding journal brings you a wide range of research and analysis spanning the criminal justice field. In addition to exploring the social, political and economic contexts of criminal justice, Crime & Delinquency examines the victims, criminals, courts and sanctions. Crime & Delinquency publishes original research only.
While we recognize that systematic reviews are rigorous and valuable, they do not generate new empirical data, which is a key criterion of Crime & Delinquency.
Submissions must not have been published, in-press, or submitted elsewhere; we employ a double-anonymized peer review process, thus we cannot accept submissions as such, as it and its author list may be discovered by reviewers introducing bias to the process.
Thought Provoking
The information you need to stay on top of your field is at your fingertips with Crime & Delinquency. You’ll have access to:
In-Depth Coverage
Crime & Delinquency occasionally supplements its broad coverage with Special Issues focusing on topics of pressing social concern. Guest edited by experts in the field, the journal’s Special Issues provide a balanced study of their subject.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/CAD.
You can direct any questions to the journal’s editorial office by emailing crime.delinquency@gmail.com.