About the Journal

International Journal of Criminology and Policing Education aims to provide a platform for policing students, police officers/staff and academics to share and discuss evidence-based academic project findings, elevating their voices and promoting the benefits of academic engagement. The journal provides professional development to those policing practitioners, both officers and staff, who have completed a research project (such as a Bachelor's or Master’s Project or those completing practitioner fellowships with academic institutions) and can present their findings.

This journal is intended to ensure that the array of research completed by policing practitioners is recognised and shared more effectively with relevant stakeholders. Our goal is to offer an easily accessible, widely read, practitioner- and student-friendly space for sharing relevant findings with police forces in the UK, allied with our target readership of the journal to those professions, academics, and researchers in the field of criminology and policing in the English-speaking world. Articles are expected to be written in an accessible format to disseminate learning about best practices in different areas of the UK and internationally.

We welcome submissions from students completing accredited policing degrees, non-accredited policing degrees, police officers enrolled in higher education courses, and retired officers pursuing academic studies. If your final year project is a substantial piece of research and has the potential to innovate policing practice, consider publishing with us. The journal recognises the significance of engagement with academic studies in addressing contemporary policing challenges and applying research knowledge in practice.

The journal's target audience is for policing academics, professionals, and key stakeholders in policing and policy areas. In addition to the broader readership, the local nature of crime problems explored within student research, a more local policing audience may be relevant. We aim to publish student research on local and strategic issues in policing. Therefore, the articles should focus on bringing research knowledge into practice and applying theory to policing problems.