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Crime and Justice
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Crime and Justice

0192-3234

Published by: The University of Chicago Press

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cj/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Law 20 8 19 6
Social Sciences and Humanities 786 8 8 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 20
Documents by Best Scientists*: 29
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 3.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Crime and Justice?

The journal primarily tackles Criminology, Law, Prison, Criminal justice and Imprisonment. Criminology research presented in Crime and Justice encompasses a variety of subjects, including Economic Justice, Injury prevention, Social psychology and Suicide prevention. Social psychology research discussed connects with the study of Domestic violence.

The studies on Suicide prevention discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Computer security, Juvenile delinquency and Occupational safety and health. The in-depth study on Occupational safety and health also explores topics in the intersecting field of Human factors and ergonomics. The journal encompasses presentations on Law, specifically Politics, State (polity), Sanctions, Law enforcement and Enforcement.

Crime and Justice focused on Prison research but expanded to cover Psychiatry. Psychiatry research is concerned with Substance abuse in particular. It focuses on Imprisonment as well as the interrelated topic of Punitive damages.

  • Criminology (64.13%)
  • Law (25.65%)
  • Prison (16.15%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency (1093 citations)
  • Age and Crime (964 citations)
  • Understanding Desistance from Crime (872 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Crime and Justice:

The most cited publications cover a variety of subjects, including Criminology, Suicide prevention, Human factors and ergonomics, Injury prevention and Criminal justice. The majority of Criminology studies in the most cited publications are focused on the issues of Prison. The most cited articles explore topics in Suicide prevention which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Juvenile delinquency and Occupational safety and health.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Crime and Justice mainly deals with areas of study such as Criminology, Punishment, Imprisonment, Sanctions and Social change. Criminology research is the primary subject tackled in Crime and Justice with a focus on Crime control. Topics in Punishment explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Precept, Democracy, Politics, Law and economics and Social theory.

The work on Social change tackled in Crime and Justice brings together disciplines like Cohort and Power (social and political).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • When Crime Policies Travel: Cross-National Policy Transfer in Crime Control (0 citations)
  • Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review (0 citations)
  • Doing Justice in Sentencing (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Crime and Justice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael Tonry (36 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • David P. Farrington (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Philip J. Cook (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Reuter (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Francis T. Cullen (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Crime and Justice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Minnesota (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Cambridge (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Maryland, College Park (2 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Damon M. Petrich;Travis C. Pratt;Cheryl Lero Jonson;Francis T. Cullen

    (2021)
    54 Citations
  • Understanding the laundering of organized crime money

    Mike Levi;Melvin Soudijn

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Racial Attitudes and Criminal Justice Policy

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • How Similar Are Modern Criminal Syndicates to Traditional Mafias

    Peter Reuter;Letizia Paoli

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Rethinking Criminal Propensity and Character: Cohort Inequalities and the Power of Social Change

    Robert J. Sampson;L. Ash Smith

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • The Effects of Imprisonment in a Time of Mass Incarceration

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of the Prison

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • Punishments, Politics, and Prisons in Western Countries

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • The Rise and Fall of Organized Crime in the United States

    James B. Jacobs

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • The Prison and the Gang

    (2022)
    12 Citations

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