The Journal of Criminal Law

*The Journal of Criminal Law*
Discipline	Criminal law
Language	English
Edited by	Alan Reed
Publication details
History	Since 1937
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	1.0 (2024)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Crim. Law
Indexing;
ISSN	0022-0183 (print); 1740-5580 (web);
LCCN	38025679
OCLC no.	615542610
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

The Journal of Criminal Law is a peer-reviewed law review which was established in 1937 and is concerned with criminal law. It is published by SAGE Publications and provides analysis of criminal law, case law, and criminal justice developments.^[1] The editor-in-chief is Alan Reed (Northumbria University).^[2] The editorial to the first edition explained that the journal was "offered to the legal profession in the belief that a periodical devoted solely to the subject of criminal law will find a large number of interested readers".^[3]