Crime and Criminal Justice International:  Editorial Policies

Submission of manuscripts

Three copies of the manuscript – double-spaced, 15,000 word  in English or 20,000 in Chinese maximum in length should be submitted to the Journal Editorial Committee at the address below. Please include a note to the editor indicating the title of the article, name of author(s), each author’s affiliation, position, telephone no., address and e-mail address. The front page should include the title, an abstract of approximately 100 words, as well as key words, in both English and Chinese. In cases where the author’s first language is not Chinese then no Chinese equivalents are necessary. The first page should contain the title, abstract, keywords, followed by the article. Papers submitted for publication should comply with our format guideline.

Review policies

All manuscripts are reviewed by two anonymous reviewers. If the reviewers’ comments disagree with each other, a third reviewer is called. The Editorial Committee reserves the final decision of publishing these articles.

Copyright

When submitting a draft, each author is required to sign a copyright license agreement:

(1) To grant a non-exclusive copyright license to allow the publisher to publish the ARTICLE by paper or digital format, digital archive, reproduce, transmit publicly by Internet, or authorize users to download, print, browse, or conduct other sales or service providing of database; grant National Central Library or other database providers a sublicense to collect the ARTICLE, for the purpose of service providing, in its database; change the format of the ARTICLE to meet the system requirement of each database.

(2) To agree that the PUBLISHER may in its sole discretion grant National Central Library or other database providers a sublicense whether or not the license fee is charged. Except the circumstances of free of charge, the PUBLISHER shall notify the Author the terms and conditions of such sublicense by any one of the connection methods as listed in the end of this Agreement.

(3) To warrant that the ARTICLE is an original work of the author’s, and the author has the right to grant all kinds of license hereinabove without any infringement of rights of any third party. This Agreement is a non-exclusive license, and the copyright of the ARTICLE still remains with the Author after executing this Agreement.

(4) If published, each contributor will receive 5 copies of the journal.

Submission Address

Please send all manuscripts to The Editorial Committee of Crime and Criminal Justice International, The Graduate School of Criminology, NationalTaipeiUniversity, 69, Sec. 2, Chien-Kuo N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104, Republic of China.

Format Guideline

The cover sheet should include the title, an abstract of approximately 100 words, as well as key words, in both English and Chinese. In cases where the author’s first language is not Chinese then no such Chinese equivalents are necessary. The first page should contain the title, abstract, keywords, then the article. Papers submitted for publication should comply with our format guideline. Manuscripts should be type-written, double-spaced in font size 12 New Times Roman. Manuscripts must be no more than 15,000 words in English or 20,000 in Chinese in length.