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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Richard Wortley, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK

Deputy Editors-in-Chief
Aiden Sidebottom, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK
Matthew Ashby, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK

Associate Editors
Gregory Breetzke, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Renee Zahnow, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Statistical Editor
Andromachi Tseloni, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Editorial Board 
Alfonso Serrano Maíllo, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, National University of Distance Education, Spain
Andrew Newton, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Anna Stewart, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Australia
Bill Lionheart, School of Mathematics, Manchester University, UK
Dave Parish, Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University, UK
Ernesto Savona, Transcrime, Universities of Milano and Trento, Italy
George Rengert, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, USA
Graham Farrell, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK
Jeff Brantingham, Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Johannes Knuttson, Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway
John Eck, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, USA
Ken Pease, Department of Criminology and Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK
Lawrence Kobilinsky, Department of Forensic Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA
Mangai Natarajan, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA
Marcus Felson, Department of Criminal Justice, Texas State University, USA
Mike Hough, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, University of London, UK
Mike Scott, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, USA
Neil Johnson, Department of Physics, University of Miami, USA 
Nick Tilley, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK
Patricia Brantingham, Institute for Canadian Urban Research, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Paul Cozens, Design Out Crime Research Centre, Curtin University, Australia
Paul Ekblom, Design Against Crime Research Centre, University of the Arts, UK
Robert Speller, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, UK
Ron Clarke, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, USA
Ross Homel, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Australia
Shane Johnson, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK
Steven Bishop, Department of Mathematics, University College London, UK
Tamara Madensen, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, USA
Tinus Kruger, CSIR Built Environment, South Africa

Founding Editorial Team
Pieter Hartel, Faculty of Behavioural Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Netherlands
Marianne Junger, Faculty of Behavioural Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Netherlands
Gloria Laycock, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK
Jerry Ratcliffe, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, USA

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    6.1 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.7 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.951 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.755 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    12 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    224 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage
    445,839 downloads
    324 Altmetric mentions