Criminal law, in doctrine and in context

Acta Juris Criminalis will publish scholarship that takes criminal law seriously as an object of doctrinal, social, and political inquiry.

The journal welcomes work in the tradition of criminal law doctrine—the close analysis of legal rules, offences, responsibility, and punishment—as well as social-science approaches that situate criminal law in its social, institutional, and political context. It will publish comparative and international criminal law, criminal justice scholarship, and work that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

The journal is being developed as an independent, international forum. It is committed to careful editorial work, serious engagement with argument, and scholarship that is accessible to readers across jurisdictions and traditions.

• Criminal law theory
• Offences & responsibility
• Punishment & sentencing
• Criminology & society
• Evidence & procedure
• Comparative criminal law
• International criminal justice
• Empirical legal studies

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