About the Journal
State Crime Journal is administered by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI). ISCI is a cross-discliplinary research centre working to further our understanding of state crime, that is organisational deviance violating human rights. State Crime Journal is the first peer-reviewed, international journal that seeks to disseminate leading research on the illicit practices of states.
Aims & Scope
The concept of state crime is not confined to legally recognised states but can include any authority that exerts political and military control over a substantial territory (e.g. the FARC).
The Journal’s focus is a reflection of the growing awareness within criminology that state criminality is endemic and acts as a significant barrier to security and development. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives are welcomed. Topics covered by the journal include: torture; genocide and other forms of government and politically organised mass killing; war crimes; state-corporate crime; state-organised crime; natural disasters exacerbated by government (in)action; asylum and refugee policy and practice; state terror; political and economic corruption; and resistance to state violence and corruption.
Journal Information
State Crime Journal is biannual, publishing online and in print in April/May and November/December. The Journal has its own website which can be found here. The electronic journal is archived in Portico. The journal is indexed by Scopus, and the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Publication Information
State Crime Journal is biannual, publishing online and in print in April/May and November/December. The Journal has its own website which can be found here. The electronic journal is archived in Portico. The journal is indexed by Scopus, and the Emerging Sources Citation Index. The journal has been indexed on DOAJ since March 2023.
The journal is Open Access and the Open Access statement, Open Access license terms, copyright terms as well as a statement on its absolute lack of author charges can be found here.
The journal became Open Access on 1 January 2021 and is published open access on ScienceOpen. All journal material published from 1 April 2012 is also published, open access on ScienceOpen. This means the Reuse rights of published material is all under the open CC BY 4.0 license as stated here.
