Wiley

Legal And Criminological Psychology

(ISSN 2044-8333)

Overview

Aims and Scope

Legal and Criminological Psychology publishes original papers which advance professional and scientific knowledge in the conjunction of legal psychology and criminological psychology. This field, constructed as ‘forensic psychology’, is defined broadly as the application of psychology to the understanding of offenders’ behaviour, the investigative and judiciary processes that bring them to justice, their treatment and the outcomes of their criminal actions. The topics covered include the causes of different types of crimes, psychopathy, criminal investigation, investigative interview and questioning, information eliciting, applied memory, deception detection, criminal profiling and crime linkage, professional training, legal and investigative decision making, expert testimonies, offender management, treatment and assessment, crime victimization, legal and public responses to crime. The journal aims to stimulate conversations and debates, to serve as a platform for communication amongst various disciplines, academic researchers, professionals and practitioners, and to provide a compelling picture of current state-of-art research in the field.

The journal welcomes the submission of empirical and review articles, meta-analyses and target papers. For specific submission requirements, please view the Author Guidelines. To be accepted for publication in Legal and Criminological Psychology, the paper has to make a substantive contribution to the field. The journal is interested in papers that provide theoretical advancement, extend existing theories, launch a new research line, or take a body of work in a new direction. Empirical studies are required to be methodologically sound and theoretically framed. Incremental contributions, or contributions devoid of a theoretical rationale, are less likely to get accepted.

Legal and Criminological Psychology is committed to open science and offers a registered reports track. Please view detailed guidelines here.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

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Advanced Placement Source (EBSCO Publishing)

ArticleFirst (OCLC)

Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)

Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest)

Criminology Collection (ProQuest)

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Embase (Elsevier)

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IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur)

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ProQuest Central (ProQuest)

ProQuest Central K-387

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