Crime, Media, Culture is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering work at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. The journal explores a range of media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style.

Crime, Media, Culture
DisciplineCriminology, media studies
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySarah Armstrong, Katherine Biber, Travis Linnemann
Publication details
History2005-present
Publisher
FrequencyTriannually
2.796 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Crime Media Cult.
Indexing
ISSN1741-6590 (print)
1741-6604 (web)
LCCN2005206689
OCLC no.60630237
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The journal covers three broad substantive areas:

  • The relationship between crime, criminal justice and media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies)
  • The relationship between criminal justice and cultural dynamics (with a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style)
  • The intersections of crime, criminal justice, media forms and cultural dynamics (including historical, political, situational, spatial, subcultural and cross-cultural intersections)

Established in 2005 by Jeff Ferrell, Yvonne Jewkes, and Chris Greer, the journal is currently edited by Sarah Armstrong, Katherine Biber, and Travis Linnemann.

Previous editors-in-chief have been:

Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.796.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Crime, Media, Culture". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2021.
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