PSYCHOLOGY CRIME & LAW

PSYCHOLOGY CRIME & LAW is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Deception detection and forensic psychology and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, together about 42% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Psychology, Crime & Law promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to crime, criminal and civil law, and the influence of law on behavior. The content includes the aetiology of criminal behavior and studies of different offender groups; crime detection; courtroom studies in areas such as jury behavior, decision making, and expert testimony; behavior of litigants, lawyers, judges, and court officers, both in and outside the courtroom; issues of offender management including prisons, probation, and rehabilitation initiatives; and studies of public, including the victim, reactions to crime and the legal process. It publishes reviews and brief reports which make a significant contribution to the psychology of law, crime and legal behavior. Internationally, Psychology, Crime & Law provides professionals in the areas of forensic-clinical psychology, law, and crime with the very latest cutting edge research and theory. Did You Know? Psychology, Crime & Law welcomes the submission of good quality review articles and meta-analyses that make a significant contribution to the psychology of law, crime and legal behavior. All reviews and meta-analyses submitted to Psychology, Crime & Law should suggest a new advance or development to the topic area in question and should be based on a strong empirical research base. If you would like to submit a review or meta-analysis fitting this description to the journal please follow the Instructions for Authors. Peer Review: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Disclaimer

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Jan AntfolkPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 4, Canada 1, Netherlands 1, Finland 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

PsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Research Alerts, Social Behavioural Sciences, Social SciSearch, Violence & Abuse Abstracts

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

1.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.67Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.29Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

87OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

912OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.51OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

15%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

24%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

99LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

411,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

26%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

4 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

51 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

31 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1068-316X

Electronic ISSN

1477-2744

Latest issue on the website

Volume 32, Issue 8 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website