Publishing in Criminal Justice: Assessing Journal Editors’ Awareness and Acceptance of Open Access

"The article presents findings from research on whether editors of major journals in the disciplines of criminal justice and criminology embrace “open access” publishing, meaning that research would be open to all and freely accessible. The study is a follow-up to a theoretical piece written by Scherlen and Robinson which argued that traditional subscription journals violate key principles of social justice theory and international law, an article embraced by IJCJS in their mission statement: “IJCJS supports the views of Scherlen and Robinson (2008), and justifies that open access is the only way to ensure social justice in the dissemination of criminal justice scholarship and literature.” ..."