The ''Journal of Criminology'' is a triannual

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that covers criminological research. The journal was established in 1968 and is the principal journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. For the first 53 volumes, it was published under the title ''Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology'', before changing its title in March 2021.

Abstracting and indexing

The ''Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology'' is abstracted and indexed in

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'', its 2013

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is 0.651, ranking it 35th out of 52 journals in the category "Criminology and Penology".

References

External links

* {{Official website, 1=https://journals.sagepub.com/description/ANJ
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
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