About the Journal
National Journal of Criminal Law (NJCL)
ISSN: 2581-8244
Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 4.968
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 62.57
DOI- 10.37591/NJCL
Editor-in-Chief
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Journal’s Summary
The primary objective of the National Journal of Criminal Law is to provide a wider knowledge of law and order in the society and to protect the life and liberty of people. People place their ultimate belief in this branch of law for protection against all injuries that humans can inflict on individuals. The National Journal of Criminal Law has been so designed as to generate critical thinking among students, practitioners and eminent academicians about the stated objectives of criminal law and to enable them to scrutinize the recent developments and changes that have taken place in the field. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.
Focus & Scope
- Substantive Criminal Law: Research on the principles, doctrines, and interpretation of criminal law, including criminal liability, mens rea, actus reus, general exceptions, abetment, attempt, conspiracy, and the classification and punishment of offences.
- Criminal Procedure and Fair Trial: Studies on investigation, arrest, bail, search and seizure, charge, trial, evidence, sentencing, appeals, and procedural safeguards, with particular attention to due process and fair-trial rights in India.
- Criminal Justice System and Administration: Research on the functioning of police, prosecution, courts, prisons, correctional institutions, forensic agencies, and other components of the criminal justice system, including institutional reforms and access to justice.
- Crimes Against Women and Gender-Based Violence: Studies on rape, sexual offences, domestic violence, dowry-related offences, workplace sexual harassment, trafficking, stalking, acid attacks, and other forms of gender-based violence, including legal remedies and enforcement challenges.
- Crimes Against Children and Juvenile Justice: Research on juvenile delinquency, child abuse, sexual offences against children, child trafficking, child protection laws, rehabilitation, restorative justice, and the operation of juvenile justice institutions.
- Criminology and Penology: Studies on theories and patterns of crime, criminal behaviour, victimology, recidivism, punishment, prison administration, rehabilitation, correctional policies, restorative justice, and alternatives to incarceration.
- Cybercrime and Technology-Enabled Crime: Research on cyber fraud, identity theft, online harassment, digital evidence, technology-facilitated offences, artificial intelligence and crime, cryptocurrency-related offences, and legal responses to emerging forms of digital criminality.
- Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Financial Crime: Studies on organized criminal networks, terrorism, money laundering, corruption, illicit trafficking, economic offences, proceeds of crime, and national and international legal frameworks for investigation and prosecution.
- Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation: Research on forensic evidence, medico-legal investigation, digital forensics, DNA evidence, crime-scene investigation, expert testimony, evidentiary reliability, and the use of scientific methods in criminal adjudication.
- Victim Rights and Victimology: Studies on the rights, protection, compensation, participation, and rehabilitation of victims of crime, including victim-impact processes, witness protection, restorative mechanisms, and access to legal remedies.
- Prison Law, Sentencing, and Correctional Justice: Research on sentencing policy, proportionality, probation, parole, remission, prison conditions, prisoners’ rights, rehabilitation, correctional administration, and reforms in custodial institutions.
- Human Rights and Criminal Justice: Examination of custodial violence, torture, arbitrary detention, unlawful surveillance, death penalty, police accountability, fair-trial guarantees, and the relationship between criminal justice institutions and constitutional or human rights protections.
- Economic and Corporate Crime: Research on fraud, bribery, corruption, corporate criminal liability, white-collar crime, market-related offences, financial misconduct, regulatory offences, and enforcement mechanisms affecting businesses and public institutions.
- Comparative and International Criminal Law: Studies on comparative criminal justice systems, transnational crime, extradition, mutual legal assistance, international criminal law, cross-border investigation, and comparative approaches to criminal-law reform.
- Criminal Law Reform and Public Policy: Research on legislative reform, judicial developments, sentencing policy, police reform, prosecutorial policy, decriminalization, criminalization, and evidence-based approaches to improving the criminal justice system.
- Indian Criminal Law and Contemporary Developments: Research on Indian criminal law, including developments under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, judicial decisions, constitutional principles, and emerging challenges in criminal justice administration. The journal also welcomes comparative and interdisciplinary work with a clear connection to criminal law or criminal justice.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar
Submission of Paper:
All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: Criminal, Law, violence
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: NJCL
Frequency: Two issues per year
Peer Reviewed Policy:
Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Basic design of a peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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