The ''International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal that publishes papers in the field of

criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

. The journal's editor-in-chief is Mark T. Palermo ( he Law Art and Behavior Foundationand Medical College of Wisconsin). It was established in 1966 and is currently published by

SAGE Publications SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California. It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...

Abstracting and indexing

''International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology'' is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the

Social Sciences Citation Index The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index is ...

. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', its 2017 impact factor is 1.452, ranking it 48 out of 82 journals in the category "Psychology, Applied" and 33 out of 61 in "Criminology & Penology", and 25 out of 57 journals in the category "Criminology & Penology".

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* {{Official website, http://ijo.sagepub.com/ SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals Criminology journals Publications established in 1972