Annual Review of Criminology

Annual Review of Criminology is published by Annual Reviews Inc. and is in Zone 1 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Crime Patterns and Interventions, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis and Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, together about 54% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

After George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013, three women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, created, in their words, “a Black-centered, political-movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.” Just over a decade later, this movement has grown into a powerful, decentralized coalition catalyzed by the protest actions following the deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and New Yorker Eric Garner at the hands of police officers and by the worldwide response to police violence following George Floyd's choking death by Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. This edition of Perspectives is an effort to take stock of how these events and attendant social movements have inspired change in criminal justice research, policy, and law. In particular, we were interested in how the past decade's events have influenced how we teach. We asked noted Yale Law School scholar and professor, James Forman, author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, to select a group for and to guide a conversation on this topic. Professor Forman is joined by Bennett Capers (Fordham School of Law), Angela Davis (American University Washington College of Law), Erin Murphy (NYU School of Law), and Shaun Ossei-Owusu (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School).

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

6.93LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

7.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

8.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

2.14LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

4.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

126OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

22LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Annual Reviews Inc.

ISSN

2572-4568

Official links

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