Legal and Criminological Psychology

Overview

Aims and Scope

Legal and Criminological Psychology publishes original papers in all areas of psychology and law:

• victimology
• policing and crime detection
• crime prevention
• management of offenders
• mental health and the law
• public attitudes to law
• role of the expert witness
• impact of law on behaviour
• interviewing and eyewitness testimony
• jury decision making
• deception

The journal publishes papers which advance professional and scientific knowledge defined broadly as the application of psychology to law and interdisciplinary enquiry in legal and psychological fields.

For specific submission requirements, please view the Author Guidelines.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

• Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing)
• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO Publishing)
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
• Advanced Placement Source (EBSCO Publishing)
• ArticleFirst (OCLC)
• ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Criminal Justice Abstracts (Sage)
• Electronic Collections Online (OCLC)
• Embase (Elsevier)
• IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur)
• Legal Collection (EBSCO Publishing)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database (NCJRS)
• ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Central: Professional Edition (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Criminal Justice (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Health & Medical Complete (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Psychology Journals (ProQuest)
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO Publishing)
• PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
• SCOPUS (Elsevier)
• Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
• SocINDEX (EBSCO Publishing)
• SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO Publishing)
• Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)