The International Journal of Law and Criminology is an open access, blind peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal law systems around the world.

The global production of knowledge in the social sciences has been structurally skewed. Criminology as a field of knowledge, until recently, has had a highly selective focus on crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North. The Global South is a concept that acknowledges the unequal relations of power that shape the lives of the current and formerly colonised, enslaved and dispossessed nations by imperial powers that dominated 9/10th of the world until recently. It is not a geographic divide but an epistemological grid of power that has shaped social scientific knowledge.

Journal of Law and Criminology is committed to cognitive justice and as such aspires to democratise knowledge, bridge global divides and encourage the voices of those on the periphery to publish with the Journal. This includes scholars from diverse Indigenous and first nation’s people’s communities, as well as scholars from the Global North and South committed to cognitive justice.