Theoretical Criminology
Consistently ranked in the top 12 of its category in the Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports, Theoretical Criminology is a major interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal for the advancement of the theoretical aspects of criminological knowledge.
The journal is committed to renewing general theoretical debate, exploring the interrelation of theory and data in empirical research and advancing the links between criminological analysis and general social and political theory.
The scope of the journal is broad and inclusive, embracing the wide diversity of thinking within criminology.
"Until the advent of Theoretical Criminology, we had no consistent forum for the exciting theoretical work that is revitalizing criminology around the world. Now we do. Theoretical Criminology has filled that gap admirably: there is nothing else like it in the field today." Elliot Currie
"[Theoretical Criminology has] published material of a high quality, with a number of articles standing out as original and challenging..." - Times Higher Education Supplement
"Theoretical Criminology is a unique catalyst for the advancement of criminological thought, an international meeting place for expanding and provoking new thinking about crime and justice in a rapidly changing world. This journal is an essential new addition to the global criminological library." John Hagan
"A first-class journal - with an international and interdisciplinary ambit - which takes seriously the role of theory, research, and politics in analysing crime, deviance, justice, and social control." Kathleen Daly
“Theoretical Criminology welcomes new proposals for its special issue, published annually. Please find the guidelines for these proposals here.”
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Consistently ranked in the top 12 of its category in the Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports, Theoretical Criminology is a major interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal. It is concerned with conceptual studies on narratives and myths of crime, punishment, social deviance, criminal law, morality, justice, gender, race, social regulation and governance. The journal is committed to renewing general theoretical debate, exploring the interrelation of theory and empirical research and advancing the links between criminological analysis and general social, political and cultural theory.
The scope of the journal is broad and inclusive, embracing a wide diversity of thinking within criminology. However, Theoretical Criminology is first and foremost concerned with the theoretical dimension of criminology. Generally, this means that the journal is more concerned with exploring, understanding, and critiquing the theoretical dimensions of criminological knowledge-making than with exercises in that activity. The journal welcomes contributions from the best work of all perspectives and traditions, Theoretical Criminology publishes papers that go beyond testing, evaluating, or integrating existing theories and is actively interested in extended discussions of the theoretical implications of such studies.
| Mary Bosworth | University of Oxford, UK |
| Leslie Paik | Arizona State University, USA |
| Maggy Lee | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Patrick Lopez-Aguado | Santa Clara University, USA |
| Piers Beirne | University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA |
| Colin Sumner | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Alpa Parmar | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Anne-Marie Singh | Ryerson University, Canada |
| Simon Cole | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Katja Franko | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Bethan Loftus | Bangor University, UK |
| Laura Piacentini | University of Strathclyde, UK |
| Dominic Aitken | University of Strathclyde, Scotland |
| Ana Aliverti | Warwick University, UK |
| Vanessa Barker | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Louise Boon-Kuo | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Michelle Brown | University of Tennessee, USA |
| Giuseppe Campesi | University of Bari, Italy |
| Eamonn Carrabine | University of Essex, UK |
| Anastasia Chamberlen | University of Warwick, UK |
| Lynn Chancer | Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA |
| Tony Cheng | Duke University, USA |
| Ben Crewe | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Brittany Friedman | University of Southern California, USA |
| Yanilda María González | University of Chicago, USA |
| Lirio Gutierrez Rivera | Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellin) |
| Sora Han | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Laura Huey | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Manuel Iturralde | Universidad De Los Andes, Colombia |
| Beatrice Jauregui | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Insa Koch | University of St Gallen (Switzerland) |
| Susanne Krasmann | University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Aaron Kupchik | University of Delaware, USA |
| Sarah Lamble | Birkbeck University, UK |
| Matthew Light | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Travis Linnemann | Kansas State University, USA |
| Ian Loader | University of Oxford, UK |
| Shadd Maruna | Queens University Belfast, UK |
| Eugene McLaughlin | City University London, UK |
| Sanja Milivojevic | University of Bristol, UK |
| Lisa Miller | Rutgers University, USA |
| Vanessa Panfil | Old Dominion University, USA |
| Wenona Rymond-Richmond | University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA |
| Sveinung Sandberg | University of Oslo, Norway |
| David Sausdal | Lund University, Sweden |
| Richard Sparks | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Forrest Stuart | Stanford University, USA |
| Chan Suh | Chang-Ang University, Korea |
| Leila Ullrich | University of Oxford, UK |
| Marion Vannier | University of Manchester, UK |
| Alison Young | University of Melbourne, Australia |
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