Criminal Justice: Finding Articles / Using Databases

Welcome to Crime Patterns and Analysis, the journal of the International Symposium on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis. This journal is the outgrowth of several years of discussion. After the ECCA 2007 conference, the website was purchased to house the journal.

The journal will have three main sections. The first section is feature articles. These articles based on completed research using sophisticated methods and analysis. The second section is shorter or less developed articles. These are still peer reviewed, but in a quicker format. This is for information that should get to others quickly (like Science Magazine publishes on breaking findings) and preliminary findings of substantial work. This section would also have a place for “negative findings” so others may not follow the same dead-end trail already proven to not be fruitful. The final section is a kind of graffiti wall where people can sign in and post information relevant to the group.

You can find the call for papers by clicking on the appropriate navigation link on the left side of this page.

"Crime, Media, Culture is a peer reviewed, international journal providing a vehicle for scholars working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. The journal explores a range of media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style. While CMC embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, CMC encourages especially work that develops cultural, critical, and qualitative understandings of the crime, media, culture nexus"

"Criminology and Criminal Justice is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the broad field of criminology and criminal justice policy and practice. The journal publishes scholarly articles on all areas of criminology, crime and criminal justice. It includes theoretical pieces, as well as empirically-based analyses of policy and practice in areas that range from policing to sentencing, community penalties and prisons; drug use to organized crime and terrorism; and from crime prevention to victims of crime"

"Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (CCJ), published quarterly and guest-edited by an expert in the topic being studied, focuses on a critical issue in contemporary criminal justice in order to provide a cogent, thorough, and timely exploration of the topic. Authoritative, balanced examinations on a variety of critical issues in criminal justice today include; organized crime, community policing, gangs, white-collar crime, and excessive police force."

"The Prison Journal (TPJ), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a central forum for studies, ideas, and discussions of adult and juvenile confinement, treatment interventions, and alternative sanctions. Exploring broad themes of punishment and correctional intervention, TPJ advances theory, research, policy and practice. Also provides descriptive and evaluative accounts of innovative programs and policies, state-of-the-art surveys and reviews, and legal and historical analysis."