Criminal Justice Ethics addresses ethical issues arising in all of the contexts of criminal justice, exploring their conceptual, normative, and empirical aspects and the relations between them. Ethical issues concerning criminal justice require multi-disciplinary study and study that integrates theoretical, empirical, and practical concerns. One of the journal’s purposes is to enlarge and deepen the study of those ethical issues, publishing work that advances the discussions and arguments concerning both the formulation of the issues and the ways they are addressed.
The cost, complexity, and importance of ethical issues concerning criminal justice are receiving heightened public attention and the attention of legislators and government overall. The journal is uniquely well placed to participate in, and contribute to the examination of questions concerning sentencing, criminalization and decriminalization, police practices, prosecutorial discretion, the collateral consequences of incarceration, the aims and justification of legal punishment and alternatives to it, and a host of related issues not just in the U.S. and the U.K., but globally. Criminal Justice Ethics is a forum for important comparative studies as well as in-depth studies of the issues in the context of one or another particular country.
Criminal Justice Ethics is aimed at reaching a wide readership, including philosophers, criminologists in many different fields, sociologists, professors of law, political theorists, and others.
In addition to articles the journal publishes full-length critical reviews of important books across the full range of relevant topical areas. Criminal Justice Ethics appears three times per year. Periodically, an issue is devoted to a single topical focus or to the work of one or another important scholar.
Papers submitted for consideration as articles are subject to initial appraisal by the editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review. All peer review is double anonymized, and authors are given extensive comments on their submissions. Editors work closely with authors with a view to helping them reach a broad and diverse readership.
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45K annual downloads/views
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1.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.677 (2023) SNIP
0.323 (2023) SJR
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Editor Jonathan Jacobs - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
Managing Editor Brent Lipscomb - Penn State Harrisburg, USA
Copy Editor Alexander Schlutz - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
Associate Editors Jeffrey Blustein - City College of New York, USA Derek R Brookes - University of Melbourne, Australia Joshua Dressler - Ohio State University, USA Mark Israel - Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services, Australia Douglas N Husak - Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Stanley Ingber - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA Tziporah Kasachkoff - Ben Gurion University, Israel Tom Campbell - Charles Sturt University, Australia Adina Schwartz - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
Editorial Advisory Board Sissela Bok - Harvard University, USA Liquan Cao - University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ronald Dworkin - New York University, USA George P Fletcher - Columbia University School of Law, USA Kent Greenawalt - Columbia University School of Law, USA Philip Heymann - Harvard Law School, USA John Kleinig - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA Lorraine Mazerolle - University of Queensland, Australia Holly V. Miller - University of North Florida, USA Coretta Phillips - London School of Economics & Political Science George Sher - Rice University, USA Jerome Skolnick - NYU Law School, USA Jeremy Travis - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA Judith Jarvis Thomson - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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