The latest issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy  was published on September 1.

Volume 15, Issue 3 publishes a diverse mix of criminology research from Brazil, The Netherlands, Argentina, Australia, the United States, South Africa, and Uruguay.

This issue contains a range of topics confronting criminal justice systems globally. For example, green criminology and the impact of mining activities in Brazil is explored by Fernando Procópio Palazzo, Lieselot Bisschop and Yogi Hale Hendlin. In South Africa, Maretha Engelbrecht and Marelize Schoeman recommend a shift in South Africa’s criminal justice priorities by recognising structural violence as a form of social harm, while Stephen Enciso explores the expansion of the mandatory sentencing regime in the Northern Territory, Australia.

From the Netherlands, Isotta Rossoni and Maartje van der Woude highlight the vulnerabilities of this migrant sex workers as a result of discretional and transactional policing, and the different strategies they employ to resist criminalisation. Gonzalo Croci develops a mid-range analytical framework to explain the changing landscape of organised crime in Latin America, and Clare Farmer and colleagues from Australia unveil a multi-modal study initiated by Victoria’s Department of Justice and Community Safety around nuisance driving.

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world. The Journal is indexed in international databases including DOAJ and Scopus and is currently a Q1 in the subject category of ‘LAW’. Internationally, the Journal is ranked in the top 60 open access Law journals and is 1st in Australasia

The Journal publishes four issues per year, has no APCs and uses Creative Commons to licence articles – making criminology research accessible to all.

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John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Rowena Maguire (Editor); Danielle Watson (Editor) and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)