Crime, Media, Culture


Crime, Media, Culture is a fully peer reviewed, international journal providing the primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. The journal explores a range of media forms and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style. While CMC embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, CMC encourages especially work that develops cultural, critical, and qualitative understandings of the crime, media, culture nexus.
The journal invites papers in three broad substantive areas:
Founded in 2005 by , and , CMC is currently edited by , and .
Previous Editors are:
Michelle Brown
Eamonn Carrabine
Jeff Ferrell
Chris Greer
Mark S. Hamm
Yvonne Jewkes

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor is 1.737, ranking it 25th out of 65 journals in the category "Criminology & Penology" and 48th out of 148 journals in the category "Sociology".