The thematic issue on COVID-19 for the American Journal of Criminal Justice is now available online. The print version of AJCJ will follow shortly in August. This special issue features 21 timely contributions from leading social scientists on a wide range of related topics, including crime trends during the pandemic, hate crime, domestic violence, policing during the virus and social ordinances enforcement, court challenges, and the crisis to corrections presented by COVID-19, among many others. Thanks to Springer, all articles are freely available with open-access and can be found here online first.
The American Journal of Criminal Justice is the official journal of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, currently housed in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.