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    • Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2013 >
      • Foreward
      • The Art of Criminology in a Hostile Environment
      • Restorative Justice: The Dual Recognition of Crime Victims and Offenders
      • Subprime or subcrime?
      • Demographic Analysis of the Penal System: A Different Approach to Sentencing
      • Competition Between Those Involved in Public Debate on Crime Statistics
      • Psycho-Criminology of Sectarian Reality
      • Al Qaeda’s Western Volunteer Corps
    • Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2014 >
      • The Global Criminality Age
      • The Long Arm of Crime and Financial Crisis
      • The Behavioral Intelligence Paradigm Shift in Fighting Cyber-Crime
      • Criminal State and Illicit Economy
      • The Impact of Victimological Theories on the Rights of Crime Victims in France
      • States of Change
      • The “Criminal Gang,” a French Ectoplasm?
      • Crime and Business
    • Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 >
      • Charting Illicit Trade
      • Does Policing Have an Impact on Homicides?
      • Cyberbanging
      • Zarqawi's Children
    • Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 >
      • Restorative Justice in the Penal Reform in France
      • Terrorism and Criminal Law
      • From "Arab Spring" to Jihadist Ice Age
      • What recent property crime trends in Western Europe tells us about the crime drops
      • At the Risk of Repeating Myself, Lumpenterrorism is Now with Us
    • Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2015 >
      • The Cyclical Evolution of Homicides and Security
      • Terrorism(s), Intelligence, and Freedoms
      • Organized Crime Behind Bars
      • Confronting Cybercrime through Criminology
      • Burglaries in France
      • Which Model for Twenty-First Century French Penal Procedure?
      • Criminal–Terrorist Convergence
      • Advocating Balance in Penal Law and Penal Procedure
    • Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2016 >
      • The Fight Against Terrorism and Crime
      • The Use of Social Networks by Criminal Gangs
      • Gangs and Their Evolution
      • The European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Prisoners' Rights
      • The Mutations of Terrorism
    • Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 2017 >
      • Answering the Terrorism Challenge
      • Know What You Are Fighting
      • Telling Tales with Inspector PredPol
      • The Legal Scheme of Exceptional Circumstances
      • From Emergence to Institutionalization of Security Departments within French Companies
      • Mafia: From the Use of Violence to Artificial Scarcity
      • Private Security on a Global Level
      • Restorative Justice
    • Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2017 >
      • Prologue: The Ironic Growth of a Subject
      • Indefensible Space Terrorism
      • Islamic State: Unidentified Terrorist Object
      • The New Habits of Imperialism
      • Special Report--"Imperialism's New Clothes"
      • The Use of Homemade Bombs
      • Community Safety
      • Improving Prevention and Protection against Terrorism
      • Building an Efficient Data Vault for a Corrections Environment
    • Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2017/2018 >
      • Contractual Issues in Private Security
      • Drugs, a Global Contemporary Criminal Menace
      • Prison Leavers
      • The Ideological Slant of a Certain Sociology in France
      • Blasphemy: a Return to "Imaginary Crimes"?
      • An Analysis of the Characteristics of School Violence
    • Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2018 >
      • Between Instability and Chaos
      • Territorial and Corrosive
      • Criminology, a Precursor to Criminal Law
      • Syria: An Epistemological Obstacle
      • Crises and Attacks
      • Sanction as a Moral Fact
      • The Blind, Swindlers, and Assassins
      • Crime, Criminality and Victims of Crime in South Africa
    • Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2018/Winter 2019 >
      • Coca and Cocaine
      • The Legalization of Cannabis in the United States and Uruguay
      • Colorado: Cannabis Legalization and the Challenge of Organized Crime
      • Initial Impact of the Legalization of Cannabis on Criminality in Uruguay
      • The Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa
      • New Maritime Crime
      • The Toxicity of Maritime Overcapacity
      • The Greater Middle East
      • Arab Nationalism and Islamism
      • Espionage Makes a Big Comeback
      • Phenomenology of Suicide Attacks
      • Eco-Terrorism
    • Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 2019/2020 >
      • Maintaining Public Order in France
      • New Perspectives in the Fight against Cyberattacks
      • For a More Effective Fight against Cybercrime
      • Criminology Comes Back to Pierre Janet
      • A (Guided) Tour of the Digital Wild West
      • Criminal Networks
      • Martyropathy in the Sunni and Shiite Worlds
      • The Release of Jihadists from Prison
      • A Brief Genealogy of Cannabis Policy in the United States
      • Jacquerie 2.0 (Peasant Revolt 2.0)
    • Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2020 >
      • Forward
      • 2019: Homicide Big Comeback in France
      • Why Salafi-Jihadist Terrorist Groups Pledge Allegiance to Al Qaeda or Isis
      • Secularization versus Secularization
      • The Security Foundations of Jair Bolsonaro’s Electoral Breakthrough
      • The Shining Path
      • The Brazilian Army in the Fight Against Crime
      • Human Trafficking Network Investigations
      • Underestimating the Political Dimension in Urban and Geopolitical Violence
      • The Economic Costs of Crime in Brazil
    • Volume 8, Number 1, 2020/2021 >
      • Forward
      • The Revenge of the Germs
      • Drug Market and Criminality at the Time of Covid-19
      • When the “Lone Wolf” Hid the Herd
      • The Jihadist Movement and Hirak in Algeria
      • Illicit Flows and Trafficking Southern Europe-Maghreb
      • The Role of Codes of Ethics
      • The Fight Against Subversive Contestation
      • Family Criminal Clans
    • Volume 8, Number 2, 2020/2021 >
      • Crime in 2020: A Very Deadly Year
      • Criminological Research and the Unspoken
      • Restorative Justice in France
      • Beheading as a Signature Method of Jihadist Terrorism
      • Hybridity: New Threats, Strategic Shift?
      • Drug Markets in the Time of Covid-19 in Europe and France
      • Trafficking in the Sahel
    • ​Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2022 >
      • Facing Total Crises: Cassandra, The State and Its Double
      • Criminology, Facts and Data
      • Cryptocurrency and National Security
      • Radicalization Analyzed by Social Sciences
      • The Impacts of Organizational Structure on Salafi-Jihadist Terrorist Groups in Africa
      • Pandemic Covid-19: Lessons for Bioterrorism
      • The History of Terrorism: A State of Knowledge and Debate
      • Strategies of U.S. Law Enforcement Professionals Against Lawless Areas and Crime Hot Spots
    • ​Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2022
  • Home
  • Submission Guidelines
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  • Issues
    • Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2013 >
      • Foreward
      • The Art of Criminology in a Hostile Environment
      • Restorative Justice: The Dual Recognition of Crime Victims and Offenders
      • Subprime or subcrime?
      • Demographic Analysis of the Penal System: A Different Approach to Sentencing
      • Competition Between Those Involved in Public Debate on Crime Statistics
      • Psycho-Criminology of Sectarian Reality
      • Al Qaeda’s Western Volunteer Corps
    • Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2014 >
      • The Global Criminality Age
      • The Long Arm of Crime and Financial Crisis
      • The Behavioral Intelligence Paradigm Shift in Fighting Cyber-Crime
      • Criminal State and Illicit Economy
      • The Impact of Victimological Theories on the Rights of Crime Victims in France
      • States of Change
      • The “Criminal Gang,” a French Ectoplasm?
      • Crime and Business
    • Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 >
      • Charting Illicit Trade
      • Does Policing Have an Impact on Homicides?
      • Cyberbanging
      • Zarqawi's Children
    • Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 >
      • Restorative Justice in the Penal Reform in France
      • Terrorism and Criminal Law
      • From "Arab Spring" to Jihadist Ice Age
      • What recent property crime trends in Western Europe tells us about the crime drops
      • At the Risk of Repeating Myself, Lumpenterrorism is Now with Us
    • Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2015 >
      • The Cyclical Evolution of Homicides and Security
      • Terrorism(s), Intelligence, and Freedoms
      • Organized Crime Behind Bars
      • Confronting Cybercrime through Criminology
      • Burglaries in France
      • Which Model for Twenty-First Century French Penal Procedure?
      • Criminal–Terrorist Convergence
      • Advocating Balance in Penal Law and Penal Procedure
    • Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2016 >
      • The Fight Against Terrorism and Crime
      • The Use of Social Networks by Criminal Gangs
      • Gangs and Their Evolution
      • The European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Prisoners' Rights
      • The Mutations of Terrorism
    • Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 2017 >
      • Answering the Terrorism Challenge
      • Know What You Are Fighting
      • Telling Tales with Inspector PredPol
      • The Legal Scheme of Exceptional Circumstances
      • From Emergence to Institutionalization of Security Departments within French Companies
      • Mafia: From the Use of Violence to Artificial Scarcity
      • Private Security on a Global Level
      • Restorative Justice
    • Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2017 >
      • Prologue: The Ironic Growth of a Subject
      • Indefensible Space Terrorism
      • Islamic State: Unidentified Terrorist Object
      • The New Habits of Imperialism
      • Special Report--"Imperialism's New Clothes"
      • The Use of Homemade Bombs
      • Community Safety
      • Improving Prevention and Protection against Terrorism
      • Building an Efficient Data Vault for a Corrections Environment
    • Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2017/2018 >
      • Contractual Issues in Private Security
      • Drugs, a Global Contemporary Criminal Menace
      • Prison Leavers
      • The Ideological Slant of a Certain Sociology in France
      • Blasphemy: a Return to "Imaginary Crimes"?
      • An Analysis of the Characteristics of School Violence
    • Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2018 >
      • Between Instability and Chaos
      • Territorial and Corrosive
      • Criminology, a Precursor to Criminal Law
      • Syria: An Epistemological Obstacle
      • Crises and Attacks
      • Sanction as a Moral Fact
      • The Blind, Swindlers, and Assassins
      • Crime, Criminality and Victims of Crime in South Africa
    • Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2018/Winter 2019 >
      • Coca and Cocaine
      • The Legalization of Cannabis in the United States and Uruguay
      • Colorado: Cannabis Legalization and the Challenge of Organized Crime
      • Initial Impact of the Legalization of Cannabis on Criminality in Uruguay
      • The Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa
      • New Maritime Crime
      • The Toxicity of Maritime Overcapacity
      • The Greater Middle East
      • Arab Nationalism and Islamism
      • Espionage Makes a Big Comeback
      • Phenomenology of Suicide Attacks
      • Eco-Terrorism
    • Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 2019/2020 >
      • Maintaining Public Order in France
      • New Perspectives in the Fight against Cyberattacks
      • For a More Effective Fight against Cybercrime
      • Criminology Comes Back to Pierre Janet
      • A (Guided) Tour of the Digital Wild West
      • Criminal Networks
      • Martyropathy in the Sunni and Shiite Worlds
      • The Release of Jihadists from Prison
      • A Brief Genealogy of Cannabis Policy in the United States
      • Jacquerie 2.0 (Peasant Revolt 2.0)
    • Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2020 >
      • Forward
      • 2019: Homicide Big Comeback in France
      • Why Salafi-Jihadist Terrorist Groups Pledge Allegiance to Al Qaeda or Isis
      • Secularization versus Secularization
      • The Security Foundations of Jair Bolsonaro’s Electoral Breakthrough
      • The Shining Path
      • The Brazilian Army in the Fight Against Crime
      • Human Trafficking Network Investigations
      • Underestimating the Political Dimension in Urban and Geopolitical Violence
      • The Economic Costs of Crime in Brazil
    • Volume 8, Number 1, 2020/2021 >
      • Forward
      • The Revenge of the Germs
      • Drug Market and Criminality at the Time of Covid-19
      • When the “Lone Wolf” Hid the Herd
      • The Jihadist Movement and Hirak in Algeria
      • Illicit Flows and Trafficking Southern Europe-Maghreb
      • The Role of Codes of Ethics
      • The Fight Against Subversive Contestation
      • Family Criminal Clans
    • Volume 8, Number 2, 2020/2021 >
      • Crime in 2020: A Very Deadly Year
      • Criminological Research and the Unspoken
      • Restorative Justice in France
      • Beheading as a Signature Method of Jihadist Terrorism
      • Hybridity: New Threats, Strategic Shift?
      • Drug Markets in the Time of Covid-19 in Europe and France
      • Trafficking in the Sahel
    • ​Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2022 >
      • Facing Total Crises: Cassandra, The State and Its Double
      • Criminology, Facts and Data
      • Cryptocurrency and National Security
      • Radicalization Analyzed by Social Sciences
      • The Impacts of Organizational Structure on Salafi-Jihadist Terrorist Groups in Africa
      • Pandemic Covid-19: Lessons for Bioterrorism
      • The History of Terrorism: A State of Knowledge and Debate
      • Strategies of U.S. Law Enforcement Professionals Against Lawless Areas and Crime Hot Spots
    • ​Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2022

Aim and Scope


According to my colleagues at the University of Montreal, criminology “is the multidisciplinary study of the criminal phenomenon”. It makes use of the humanities and social sciences (psychology, sociology, law, etc.) to understand the crime, the criminal, the victim, criminality, and society’s reaction to crime.

Although everyone is aware of the criminal phenomenon, particularly through media exposure, the public understanding is often anecdotal and fragmentary. The criminologist looks beyond the headlines and takes a rigorously analytical and critical approach to criminality. He begins by analyzing the crime, before examining the type of intervention employed.

Criminology is also an applied discipline. The criminologist is trained, for example, to decide whether a prisoner should be granted conditional release, or to propose a strategy for tackling an explosion of vehicle theft in a parking lot. He thus develops risk prevention and risk management strategies that take into account the dynamics of crime and the ethical and political stakes surrounding it.

There are many journals covering criminal law, the criminal sciences and sociology, but very few international criminology reviews. We therefore aim to provide a space for open-minded dialogue, comparison, and criticism, which takes into account diverse approaches while avoiding sterile arguments about the nature of the discipline itself.

A crime is the unique combination of a perpetrator, a victim, and a set of circumstances. Its individual and quantitative analysis requires scientific methods and specific intellectual and technical abilities.

In The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Emile Durkheim emphasizes that “[…] A number of acts can be observed, all with the external characteristic that once accomplished, they provoke this particular reaction from society known as punishment. We make of them a group sui generis, on which we impose a common rubric. We call any punished act a crime and make crime thus defined the focus of a dedicated science: criminology”.

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Editorial Board


Jean Pierre Arnaud PR
CNAM

Alain Bauer PR
CNAM, Shanghai, New York, Beijing

Philippe Baumard PR
CNAM

Michel Bera PR
CNAM 

Gerald Bronner PR
Paris 7, IUF

Laurent Cappelletti PR
CNAM

Robert Cario PR
Pau, France

Jean Paul Cere MCF
Pau, France

Pascal Chaigneau PR
Paris 5, HEC

Clotilde Champeyrache MCF
Paris 8, France

Marc Cools PR
Gent, Belgium

Maurice Cusson PR
Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Philippe Durance PR
CNAM

Frederic Esposito PR
Geneva, Switzerland

Nboaz Ganor PR
Lauder ITC, Israel

Mathieu Guidere PR
Paris 8, France

Francois Haut MCF
Paris 2, France

Mathieu Lacambre MCF
Montpellier, France

Xavier Latour PR
Nice, France

Jianming Mei PR
Beijing, Shanghai, China

Louise Shelley PR
George Mason University, USA

Arndt Sinn PR
Osnabruck, Germany

Max Taylor PR
London, UK

Mariame Toure
Centif, Senegal

Christian Vallar PR
Nice, France
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