Journal Policies

• Section Policies
• Peer Review Process
• Publication Frequency
• Open Access Policy
• Copyright Notice
• Permissions
• Archiving
• Take Down Policy
• Journal History
• Journal Sponsorship
• Privacy and Consent Policy

Section Policies

Contemporary Challenges: The Global Crime, Justice and Security Journal employs a mix of single-blind and open-peer review, whereby the reviewers identity remains unknown to the author for the duration of the review process. Single-blind peer review is a very common process of peer reviewing. The following steps describe the peer-review process. 

1. The article is submitted. The Editor in Chief and Deputy Editor in Chief will send the article to a group of editors who have expertise on the topic. Each group consists of at least two editors who will review the article independently from each other 
2. Throughout step one, the editors inform the Editor-in-Chief about any academic misconduct or problems within the article.  
3. After the reviewing process is finished, the editors will send the article to the Editor-in-Chief and the Deputy Editor in Chief who will decide whether or not the article will be accepted. If it is not, the author will be informed. If it is, the comments and suggestions will be sent to the author who will have four weeks to implement recommended changes. 
4. The revised article will then be content edited by at least two editors. Again the article will be sent to the Editor in Chief and the Deputy Editor in Chief who will send the article with comments and suggestions to the author. 
5. The author will have three weeks to implement recommended changes. 
6. The revised article will then be copy-edited by the editorial board. Again the article will be sent to the Editor in Chief and the Deputy Editor in Chief who will send the article with comments and suggestions to the author. 
7. The author will have three weeks to implement the recommended changes. 
8. The article will then be checked by the Editor in Chief and the Deputy Editor in Chief and the author will be notified of their final successful submission. 

Publication Freqency

CCJ is published once a year.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This journal’s open access policy is in line with UK research funders’ policies.

Authors are not charged any APCs (Article Processing Charges) or other publication fees.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
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b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

d. Authors are required to make sure submitted content does not infringe third-party copyright. Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any third-party material for online – and print, if applicable – publication in perpetuity. It is also the authors’ responsibility to include any acknowledgements requested by copyright holders, and to mark clearly third-party material used with permission, material that has separate licensing terms, and material used under exceptions or limitations to copyright.

More information is available from the UK's Intellectual Property Office and Creative Commons.

Permissions

It is not necessary to obtain permission to reuse articles published in this journal, provided that reuse is in line with the article’s Creative Commons licence and attribution to the author(s) and the published article is maintained. Please note that these terms do not extend to any material that has separate licensing terms specified or any material that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Permission to reproduce third-party material must be obtained directly from the copyright holders concerned.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Take Down Policy

What Edinburgh University Library will do if you believe content on this hosting platform infringes any person's rights, or applicable UK laws.

Journals on the Library’s platform are strongly encouraged to make every effort to ensure that published content does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws.

Should you discover content in this journal that you believe to be illegal, or infringes any of your statutory rights, you may contact the Library who will review the complaint.

On receipt of your complaint, the Scholarly Communications Team will:

1. Make an initial assessment of its validity
2. Acknowledge receipt of the complaint by email
3. For all but spurious complaints, cease access to the item that is subject to complaint
4. Refer the complaint to the University's Legal Advisor for comment and advice
5. Seek to verify your identity and authority as a complainant.

When the Service Manager has verified the authenticity of your complaint and has been advised that it is ostensibly legitimate, the article will be removed from public access, leaving behind the article abstract.

If the Legal Advisor confirms that it does not breach any law then the item will be reinstated.

Please contact:

Scholarly Communications Team, Edinburgh University Library
Floor F East, Argyle House
3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DR

Email: edinburgh.diamond@ed.ac.uk

Please note the Library is staffed 9-5pm Monday-Friday

Journal History

The CCJ was born out of an initiative by postgraduate students at Edinburgh Law school in 2020, who were eager to contribute to the growing academic exploration of global crime, justice and security. 

Journal Sponsorship