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Criminal Justice and Behavior Template

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About the Criminal Justice and Behavior format

Criminal Justice and Behavior is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Crime Patterns and Interventions. Over its lifetime it has published 2,727 papers, which have received 114,377 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Criminal Justice and Behavior, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending Crime Patterns and Interventions Child Abuse and Trauma Homelessness and Social Issues
ISSN0093-8548
Citation impact (2-yr)2.23
h-index147
i10-index1,751
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Cincinnati
Journal websitecjb.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Criminal Justice and Behavior per year

79
2014
75
2015
85
2016
69
2017
113
2018
82
2019
119
2020
97
2021
77
2022
84
2023
119
2024
104
2025

Citation impact of Criminal Justice and Behavior by publication year

3.7K
2014
3.2K
2015
3K
2016
1.7K
2017
2.6K
2018
1.9K
2019
2K
2020
1.3K
2021
682
2022
570
2023
445
2024
117
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Criminal Justice and Behavior

Classification for Effective Rehabilitation

D. A. Andrews, James Bonta, Robert D. Hoge · 1 Mar 1990

Four principles of classification for effective rehabilitation are reviewed: risk, need, responsivity, and professional override. Many examples of Case x Treatment interactions are presented to illustrate the principles.

1,884 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Criminal Justice and Behavior

Stanley L. Brodsky · 1 Dec 1980

Official Publication of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology www.ia4cfp.org Philip R. Magaletta, Federal Bureau of Prisons Douglas B. Marlowe, University of Pennsylvania Mary McMurran, University of Nottingham, UK Edwin I. Megargee, Florida State University Holly A. Miller, Sam Houston State University Robert Morgan, Texas Tech University David Nussbaum, University of Toronto Scarborough;…

1,748 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Psychopathy

Robert D. Hare · 1 Mar 1996

Although the evolution of psychopathy as a formal clinical disorder began more than a century ago, it is only recently that scientifically sound psychometric procedures for its assessment have become available. The result has been a sharp increase in theoretically meaningful and replicable research findings, both in applied settings and in the laboratory. The construct…

1,050 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Violent Recidivism of Mentally Disordered Offenders

Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice, Vernon L. Quinsey · 1 Dec 1993

Multivariate techniques were used to derive and validate an actuarial instrument for the prediction of violent postrelease offenses by mentally disordered offenders. The 618 subjects were a heterogeneous group of men who had been charged with serious offenses. Approximately half had been treated in a maximum security psychiatric institution and the rest had been briefly…

Reporting Sexual Victimization To The Police And Others

Bonnie S. Fisher, Leah E. Daigle, Francis T. Cullen et al. · 1 Feb 2003

Beginning with Koss, Gidycz, and Wisniewski’s pathbreaking study, the sexual victimization of female college students has emerged as salient research and policy concern. Building on this earlier work, we used a national, random sample of 4,446 female college students to focus on an issue of continuing importance: the level and determinants of victims’ willingness to…

Criminal Justice and Behavior template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Criminal Justice and Behavior format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Criminal Justice and Behavior template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Criminal Justice and Behavior use?
Criminal Justice and Behavior uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Criminal Justice and Behavior, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Criminal Justice and Behavior?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Criminal Justice and Behavior document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Criminal Justice and Behavior template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Criminal Justice and Behavior format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Criminal Justice and Behavior?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready Criminal Justice and Behavior PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Criminal Justice and Behavior template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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