The Internet Journal of Criminology
recommended by Crimeculture
The Internet Journal of Criminology (IJC), a free access online journal, is one of the most valuable web resources available for those interested in the representation of crime and in all aspects of the criminal justice system and criminal behaviour.
IJC describes its primary aim as the publication of "international, scholarly and peer-reviewed criminology articles of the highest standard from many areas of expertise including the criminal justice system, crime reduction, delinquency, hate crimes and deviant social behaviour." Web publication enables the editors to publish a greater number of articles, thus reducing the time between acceptance of completed work and its publication:
The IJC is published by New University Press (NUP), a division of flashmousepublishing ltd. NUP is dedicated to providing readers of the IJC with international, scholarly, and peer reviewed articles. The electronic format allows for more rapid publication than other mediums and the IJC is dedicated to providing free online access to all articles.
Amongst recent articles, for example, we would highly recommend Blurring Fame & Infamy: A Content Analysis of Cover-Story Trends in People Magazine, by Jack Levin, James Alan Fox and James Mazaik (all of Northeastern University, USA).
Article abstract: "This article reports the results obtained in two studies of People magazine. Our results suggest that, from 1974 to 1998, the cover themes of issues of People magazine shifted away from celebrity careers to a preoccupation with the stars' personal problems-illnesses, crime, and family/sex issues. Over the decades, moreover, the basis for People celebrities appearing in a cover story became decidedly more negative. During the early years, most of the stars were on People's cover because they had accomplished a virtuous objective. More recently, however, the magazine heaped attention-perhaps inordinate attention-on the “accomplishments” of rapists, child abusers, drug addicts, and murderers." Available for download as a PDF.
Publication of student work: IJC is also, like Crimeculture, dedicated to the web publication of outstanding work by students, presenting undergraduate dissertations considered by its Editorial Board to be worthy of publication. The editors of Crimeculture particularly recommend The Mafia, The Triads and the IRA: A Study of Criminal and Political Secret Societies, by Daniel Lydon (Nottingham Trent University), linked from their Undergraduate Dissertations page.
