This week (19-25 October) is International Open Access Week.

Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year’s theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge—particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests.

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (IJCJSD) is an open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world. IJCJSD remains committed to making criminology research and scholarship accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access practices.

The Journal publishes four issues annually and is supported by a small editorial team advised by an international editorial board. The Journal is hosted in the School of Justice, QUT and is part of a small collection of Diamond open access journals in QUT Open Press.

Authors retain copyright and articles are openly licenced via Creative Commons to make published articles more readily available and useable.

The Journal is categorised as a ‘Diamond’ Open Access journal. Diamond Open Access (OA) refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers.

The Journal is indexed widely and included in the most comprehensive open access database – DOAJ (the Directory of Open Access Journals). 

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Email: crimjournal@qut.edu.au