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About Justice Quarterly

Justice Quarterly (ISSN 0741-8825) is an official journal of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). JQ is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal featuring articles that address issues of crime and criminal justice.  JQ provides articles using a range of qualitative and quantitative research.  JQ is a premier journal and it continues to be a major forum for crime-related scholarship, making it an essential part of any library's holdings.

JQ is abstracted or indexed in Social Sciences Citation Index, ISI Alerting Services, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Abstracts in Criminology and Penology, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Criminal Justice Periodical Index, NCJRS, Uncover, Violence and Abuse Abstracts, Sage Public Administration Abstracts, Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts, and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts.

Justice Quarterly

To access JQ online, please visit the “Online Journal Access” page. Please note: You MUST be signed in to your member account to access this page.

The current editors of Justice Quarterly (JQ) are Joshua Cochran and Daniel Mears.  

Inquiries regarding manuscripts should be sent to:

Joshua Cochran
University of Cincinnati
email: joshua.cochran@uc.edu