IJCJS vOLUME: 7 ISSUE 1  january - june 2012 

The International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences (IJCJS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on the contemporary issues in Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Victimology, is the official journal of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV). It tries to give a new impetus to the field of criminology by the way of high quality articles and book reviews. This journal would provide a forum for International academics, practitioners and activists who share critical perspectives on criminology, criminal justice and Victimology. The main purpose of the journal would be to counter mainstream and authoritarian discourses, policies, and practices relating to crime, Criminal justice and Victimology.            

IJCJS is ranked as B Journal by the Excellence in Research in Australia (ERA) (2010) initiative of Australian Research Council .

This journal would act as a focal point for critical research, at a time when critical academic work is becoming increasingly subjugated to mainstream approaches. This journal would have, as a secondary aim, the opportunity of raising the profile of the International criminological perspectives among academics, practitioners, and activists. We would hope to see an increased interest in the Criminal Justice field through the publication of this journal.

 

Publication dates
Bi-annual. Two times a year (January and July) 

 

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Open Access

The International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences (IJCJS) believes that knowledge is open to all and it should be freely accessible. IJCJS makes all content freely available to all researchers worldwide, ensuring maximum dissemination of content through its website. IJCJS supports the views of Scherlen and Robinson (2008), and justifies that open access is the only way to ensure social justice in the dissemination of criminal justice scholarship and literature.  IJCJS also supports Create Change in promoting the concept of open access.

 

Benefits of publishing in IJCJS

 

• No page or publication fees/charges unlike some open access journals. Authors need not pay for the publication of their articles.

• Fast submission and review process

• Publishing in a ranked journal

• Research reaches the community in a timely manner

• Guaranteed quality - peer review managed by top international reviewers

• All content is free

• High readership visibility

 

Creative Commons License

IJCJS articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India license, at the free choice of the authors. Under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, share alike, for non-commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. This license does not permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. (read full legal code).

 

Abstracting and Indexing

IJCJS is Abstracted/Indexed in ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index, Directory of Open Access Journals, SocINDEX EBSCO, Intute,  J-gate,  and Lucy Scribner Library.

 

Submission of Manuscripts

All manuscripts must be submitted in APA format. You can access an APA documentation here.  Please follow APA guidelines for Manuscript Preparation, including title page for blind review, referencing, and tables and figures.  All manuscripts will undergo blind review by two or more reviewers. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.  Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material from other sources and are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright to the publisher. Rights of manuscripts, artwork, and photographs has to be transferred to the publisher, upon the acceptance of the paper for final publication. IJCJS welcomes articles throughout the year. The IJCJS encourages quality scholarship articles from relevant academic disciplines as well as from practitioners in the private and public sector. IJCJS is receptive to scholarship coming from a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. All research should be understood and examined through a transnational perspective. Articles previously published or submitted for publication in any other journal will not be accepted.

All articles must be grounded on relevant and recent scholarship in the fields of our interest. The minimum page length is 5000 words. The maximum length should not exceed twenty five pages (8000 words), including references, footnotes and illustrations.  References in the notes should conform to the mode specified in APA Style. Manuscripts should be submitted as MS Word attachment to the Editor-in-Chief at ijcjs@sascv.org Hard copy submissions will not be processed. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to edit submissions if accepted for publication. Every effort will be made to inform contributors of the outcome of the peer review process in a timely manner. The review process is via e-mail, and should take no more than 1 to 4 months.

 

Please send completed manuscripts by email to

K. Jaishankar

Editor-in-Chief, IJCJS,

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli 627 012

Tamil Nadu India

E-mail: ijcjs@sascv.org

Websites: http://www.ijcjs.co.nr   / http://www.sascv.org/ijcjs