Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology

ISSN 0034-690X (print)
ISSN 3023-9923 (online)

The first issue of the journal was published in 1950 under the title of Criminal Investigation Service. In 1959, the journal was renamed into the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology. It has been the leading Slovenian professional scientific journal covering the areas of criminology and criminal investigation and related scientific disciplines (criminal law, victimology, penology, etc.).

About the Journal

Publisher: Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, Police

Editors-in-Chief:

• Damjan PETRIČ, mag., Acting Director General of the Police, General Police Directorate, Slovenia
• Gorazd Meško, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Managing Editor:

• Evgen Česnik, M.A., Criminal Police Directorate, General Police Directorate, Slovenia

Members of the Editorial Board:

• Marcelo Aebi, Ph.D., University of Lausanne, Switzerland,
• Matjaž Ambrož, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia,
• Igor Areh, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Jasmina Arnež, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Aleš Bučar Ručman, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Katja Eman, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Vanja Ida Erčulj, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Charles B. Fields, Ph.D., Eastern Kentucky University, USA,
• Katja Filipčič, Ph.D., Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
• Danijela Frangež, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Helmut Hirtenlehner, Ph.D., Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria,
• Matjaž Jager, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia,
• Zoran Kanduč, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia,
• Mirjam Kline, Supreme State Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia,
• Branko Lobnikar, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Darko Maver, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• Mojca M. Plesničar, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia,
• Michael D. Reisig, Ph.D., Arizona State University, USA,
• Gregor Urbas, Ph.D., Australian National University, Australia,
• Aleš Završnik, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Abstracts and Articles are Included in the Following Databases::

• CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Bethesda, Maryland, USA,
• CSA Sociological Abstracts, San Diego, California, USA.
• Criminal Justice Abstracts, Thousand Oaks, California, USA,
• EBSCO Research Database, Ipswich, Massachussetts, ZDA
• NCJRS Abstracts Database, Rockville, Maryland, USA,
• Scopus, Elseview, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA,
• SSCI Social Science Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics, Boston, Massachussetts, USA,

Technical Editors of the Journal

Head:

• Rok Hacin, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Member:

• Aleksander Koporec Oberčkal, Ph.D., Police Academy, General Police Directorate, Slovenia.

Technical Designer:

Branka Derenčin, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia

Linguistic Review:

Roger Metcalfe

Print: Tisk Žnidarič, d. o. o., Slovenia

Circulation: 380 copies

Address:

Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve Republike Slovenije, Policija
Štefanova ulica 2, 1501 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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The journal is published quarterly and is available in open access on the webpage of the Police  https://www.policija.si/eng/newsroom/publications/journal-of-criminal-investigation-and-criminology.

The Journal is peer-reviewed and takes into account the COPE ethical standards of of good editorial policy practice (http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf).

The current impact factors are 0.076 in SCOPUS and 0.4 in Web of Science. The five-year impact factor in Web of Science is 0.3.