Journal of Criminal Psychology

About the journal

The Journal of Criminal Psychology (JCP) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal dealing with issues surrounding criminal aspects of psychology. The Journal of Criminal Psychology exists for the purpose of advancing and stimulating research in the field of criminal psychology. The Journal of Criminal Psychology will publish edited collections of manuscripts from an international pool of academics, relevant practitioners and researchers on a twice yearly basis.

Editorial scope and objectives

The Journal of Criminal Psychology encourages submissions of papers from all fields including the social, cognitive, personality, and biological domains that are relevant to the theoretical, research, or clinical aspects of criminal psychology. The journal publishes papers based on quantitative and/or qualitative research design. Original conceptual papers and brief research reports will also be considered for publication.

Coverage includes:

Predictors of delinquent and criminal behaviour
Classification and treatments of offenders
Prevention, intervention, and treatment programs
Offender and offensive characteristics
Psychology of policing
Psychology of interrogation and witness testimony
Psychology and crime issues
Exploring the interrelation of theory and data in empirical research and advancing the links between criminological analysis and psychology
Criminal Thinking Style and Criminal Identity
Process of Prisonization
Recidivism
Application of advanced statistical analysis to the field of criminal psychology

Key Benefits

JCP is the only journal to address development of criminal behaviour with a particular focus on prison population
JCP focuses on research that explains the decision making process involved in developing the motivation, attitudes and techniques necessary to commit crime.

Key Journal Audiences

Journal of Criminal Psychology is vital for everyone involved in criminal behaviour. It is a hugely valuable source of information for academics, the police, universities and colleges, social workers, youth offending and youth justice teams, NHS and prison workers, primary care trusts, local authorities, community safety and probation officers, education services, trainers, the voluntary sector, service users, carers and students.

Journal of Criminal Psychology is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Health and Social Care Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Sample Articles

An Investigation of the Guilty Knowledge Test Polygraph Examination
Ciara Staunton, (University College Cork, Ireland), Sean Hammond, (University College Cork, Ireland)
Volume: 1 Issue: 1; 2011
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Investigating Social Dominance in a Prison Population
Nicola Graham-Kevan, (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom)
Volume: 1 Issue: 1; 2011
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Negative Relating and Offense Type
Michelle Newberry, (HM Prison Grendon, Buckinghamshire, UK Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK), John Birtchnell, (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK)
Volume: 1 Issue: 1; 2011
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Abuse Histories and Attributions of Sexual Offenders
Sandy Jung, (Department of Psychology, Grant MacEwan University, Canada), Elizabeth Carlson, (Department of Psychology, Grant MacEwan University, Canada)
Volume: 1 Issue: 1; 2011
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Discrimination Needed: The Over-Inclusive Definition of Who is a Sex Offender
Ryanne Colbert, (California School of Forensic Studies Alliant International University, Los Angeles, USA)
Volume: 1 Issue: 1; 2011
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