期刊名称:VICTIMS & OFFENDERS
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal

An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice
Aims and scope
Victims & Offenders is now listed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index
Victims & Offenders is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for the dissemination of new research, policies, and practices related to both victimization and offending throughout the life course. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for researchers -- both in the United States and internationally -- from a wide range of disciplines (criminal justice, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, public health, and social work) to publish articles that examine issues from a variety of perspectives in a unique, interdisciplinary forum. We are interested in both quantitative and qualitative research, systematic, evidence-based reviews, and articles that focus on theory development related to offenders and victims. The journal is published quarterly and each issue will include original research and an “opinion” section highlighting critical issues in the areas of victimization and offending.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone initial editorial screening and rigorous peer review.
Instructions to Authors
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Contents
About the Journal
Victims & Offenders is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Victims & Offenders accepts the following types of article: original articles.
Peer Review and Ethics
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Preparing Your Paper
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Word Limits
Please include a word count for your paper.
A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 10,000-20,000 words.
Style Guidelines
Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.
Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Papers may be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).
Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.
If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.
References
Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper.
Taylor & Francis Editing Services
To help you improve your manuscript and prepare it for submission, Taylor & Francis provides a range of editing services. Choose from options such as English Language Editing, which will ensure that your article is free of spelling and grammar errors, Translation, and Artwork Preparation. For more information, including pricing, visit this website.
Checklist: What to Include
- Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 100 words.
- You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. Find out how these can help your work reach a wider audience, and what to think about when filming.
- Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]. For multiple agency grants This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
- Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
- Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). Templates are also available to support authors.
- Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
- Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word. For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork document.
- Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
- Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
- Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Using Third-Party Material in your Paper
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.
Submitting Your Paper
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Centre, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.
Please note that Victims & Offenders uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Victims & Offenders you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.
Data Sharing Policy
This journal applies the Taylor & Francis Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.
Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan. If you are uncertain about where to deposit your data, please see this information regarding repositories.
Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.
Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).
Publication Charges
There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.
Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in your online article free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply.
Charges for colour figures in print are £300 per figure ($400 US Dollars; $500 Australian Dollars; €350). For more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($75 US Dollars; $100 Australian Dollars; €65). Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.
Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Complying with Funding Agencies
We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders’ open access policy mandates here. Find out more about sharing your work.
Open Access
This journal gives authors the option to publish open access via our Open Select publishing program, making it free to access online immediately on publication. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access; you can check open access funder policies and mandates here.
Taylor & Francis Open Select gives you, your institution or funder the option of paying an article publishing charge (APC) to make an article open access. Please contact openaccess@tandf.co.uk if you would like to find out more, or go to our Author Services website.
For more information on license options, embargo periods and APCs for this journal please go here.
My Authored Works
On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.
We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.
Article Reprints
You will be sent a link to order article reprints via your account in our production system. For enquiries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk. You can also order print copies of the journal issue in which your article appears.
Queries
Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
Updated 28-01-2019
Editorial Board
Co-Editor-in-Chiefs:
James M. Byrne , PhD Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Donald Hummer
Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, Penn State University - Harrisburg
Associate Editors:
Kimberly R. Kras Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
William Wood, PhD Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
Emily Wright Professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Senior Consulting Editors:
David Farrington Professor, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University.
Arthur J. Lurigio
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Department of Psychology Associate Dean for Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences Loyola University Chicago Editorial Board Members: Jay Albanese - Virginia Commonwealth University Alison Cares - Assumption College Todd Clear - Rutgers University Francis Cullen - University of Cincinnati James Finckenauer - Rutgers University, and University of Pennsylvania Bonnie Fisher - University of Cincinnati
William H. Fisher - University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Kate Fox - Arizona State University
Kathleen M. Heide - University of South Florida Donald Hummer - The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Robert Jerin - Endicott College Jodi Lane - University of Florida Vivian Lord – University of North Carolina Charlotte John T. Lu - Massachusetts Sentencing Commission Shadd Maruna - Rutgers University
Laura Moriarty - Monmouth University
Melissa Morabito - University of Massachusetts, Lowell Mario Papparozi - University of North Carolina, Pembroke April Pattavina - University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Wellesley College Donald Rebovich - Utica College Ann Marie Rocheleau - Stonehill College Eric Sevigny - Georgia State University Cassia Spohn - Arizona State University Loretta J. Stalans - Loyola University, Chicago Ben Steiner - University of Nebraska Omaha Chris Sullivan- University of Cincinnati Faye Taxman - George Mason University Karin Tusinski Miofsky - Lakeland University Karen Terry - John Jay College of Criminal Justice Susan Turner - University of California, Irvine Pamela Wilcox - University of Cincinnati Sheldon Zhang - University of Massachusetts Lowell
International Editorial Board Members:
Christine Bond - Griffith University, Australia Jesse Cale - University of New South Wales Spencer De Li - University of Macau, China Ioan Durnescu - University of Bucharest, Romania Antonio Castro Fonseca - University of Coimbra, Portugal Ross Homel - Griffith University, Australia Santiago Redono Illescas - University of Barcelona, Spain Darrick Jolliffe - University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Marianne Junger - University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Hans-Juergen Kerner - University of Tuebingen, Germany Britta Kyvsgaard - Ministry of Justice, Denmark Pamela Lattimore - Research Triangle Institute International Paul Mazerolle - Griffith University, Australia Fergus McNeill - University of Glasgow, Scotland Ian O'Donnell - University College, Dublin Ireland James Oleson - University of Auckland, New Zealand Richard Sparks - University of Edinburgh, Scotland Hiroshi Tsutomi - University of Shizuoka, Japan Georgia Zara - University of Turin, Italy
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