Punishment & Society

Impact Factor: 1.4

Editor-In-Chief: Kelly Hannah-Moffat

Discipline: Criminology, Criminal Justice

Description:

Punishment & Society is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control, broadly conceived. The journal’s interdisciplinary focus intersects critical scholarship on the penal field with historical and contemporary analyses of race, class, gender, and ethnicity; while its international scope serves to make it relevant to readers and contributors from all parts of the world. Punishment & Society includes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, including criminology and penology; sociology of punishment; law & society; penal history; penal theory and philosophy of punishment; postcolonial studies; feminist theory; critical race theory; political economy, border criminologies, and carceral geography. Each issue includes a lively Book Review section, reviewing the most important new books and publications. It features review essays, symposia and debates as well as shorter reviews, ensuring readers are kept up-to-date on what has been published in this expanding field. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Electronic access: Punishment & Society is available online.Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pun.