Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Journal of Quantitative Criminology (commonly abbreviated as ''J. Quant. Criminol.') is a peer-reviewed criminology journal published by Springer. It was founded in 1985, its inaugural issue appearing in March 1985, by James Alan Fox of Northeastern University, who served as founding editor. Its current co-editors-in-chief are P. Jeffrey Brantingham and George Mohler, it appears four times a year, and its 2025 impact factor is 2.7.Journal of Quantitative Criminology（常用缩写 J. Quant. Criminol.）是 施普林格 出版的犯罪学领域同行评审期刊，创刊于 1985 年，1985 年 3 月出版首卷首期，由美国东北大学的 James Alan Fox 创办并任创刊主编，现任共同主编为 P. Jeffrey Brantingham 与 George Mohler，每年出版四期，2025 年影响因子为 2.7。^[1]

Scope

• Disciplinary boundary: The journal applies quantitative techniques to substantive, methodological and evaluative concerns within criminology. The disciplines it draws on extend well beyond criminology itself to statistics, sociology, geography, political science, economics and engineering.学科边界： 该刊把定量技术应用于犯罪学中的实质性问题、方法论问题或评价性问题，所依托的学科不限于犯罪学本身，还包括统计学、社会学、地理学、政治学、经济学与工程学。*
• Content types: It publishes original research, brief methodological critiques and papers exploring new directions for study, and it focuses on the application of quantitative techniques at all complexity levels, so that a paper answering an important question with a plain method may be as welcome as one using a recondite technique.内容类型： 刊发原创研究、简短的方法论评论，以及开辟新研究方向的论文，不论定量技术的复杂度高低都在接受之列，因此一篇用朴素方法回答重要问题的论文同样可能入选。*
• Intellectual orientation: The editors frame progress in quantitative criminology around three ideas, namely importation of statistical approaches pioneered in other fields, introspection on how criminological data and contexts affect the use of those approaches, and innovation in methods built for criminological problems rather than imported wholesale.理论取向： 编辑部把定量工作在犯罪学中的推进方向概括为引进、自省与创新三条路径，其中引进指把其他学科成熟的统计方法引入犯罪学，自省指反思犯罪学数据与情境如何影响方法的适用，创新指发展真正为犯罪学问题而生的新技术。*
• Audience and methodological preference: The readership is the quantitative community of criminology at large. The editors are equally interested in papers that make a substantive contribution to criminology while using quantitative techniques, whether through new analytic techniques or the assessment of existing methodological tools, and they explicitly invite submissions from economists, psychologists and public health researchers.目标读者与方法偏好： 目标读者是整个犯罪学共同体的定量研究者，编辑部明确欢迎以定量技术对犯罪学作出实质推进的论文，包括引入新的分析技术、评估既有方法工具，以及在理论与政策层面取得进展的工作，同时也邀请经济学家、心理学家与公共卫生研究者投稿。*
• Review practice and international participation: The journal handles roughly 200 manuscripts a year, screens them in house first and desk-rejects those with little prospect of eventual publication, while encouraging submissions from outside the United States so that crime and justice problems can be seen comparatively. It is published as a hybrid title with an open access option.评审与国际参与： 期刊每年处理约二百篇来稿并先在编辑部内部初筛，对明显缺乏发表可能的稿件会作退稿处理，同时鼓励美国以外的研究者投稿，以获得跨国比较的犯罪与司法图景；该刊以混合出版模式发行，另有开放获取选项。*

这三条路径合起来划定了该刊在犯罪学中的位置。它并不是又一本综合性犯罪学刊物，而是把自己定位为方法论推进的专门场所；相应地，编辑流程刻意保留了相当高的内部退稿比例，目的在于不让作者把半年时间耗在明显不合的稿件上。对犯罪学这样长期以定性传统为主的学科而言，这种取舍是该刊影响力来源，也是其体量长期受限的原因。

History

• 1983: The proposal to launch the journal was put to nearly one hundred leading criminologists in a survey, and the majority opinion was that the new publication would never get off the ground.1983 年： 创刊动议最初以问卷形式征询近百位主要犯罪学学者，得到的普遍判断是这份新刊不会存续下去。*
• March 1985: The inaugural issue appeared with James Alan Fox as founding editor. Its opening statement argued for a needed forum bringing together empirical and methodological advances made in a number of scholarly traditions, and the first volume carried papers by operations researchers, economists and sociologists.1985 年 3 月： 首卷首期出版，由 James Alan Fox 任创刊主编，卷首社言主张为散布于多个学术传统中的实证与方法论进展提供一个汇聚的论坛，首卷作者来自运筹学、经济学与社会学。*
• Early years: Fox served as founding editor for about seven years, after which the editorship passed in turn to John H. Laub, Michael Maltz, David McDowall, James P. Lynch and Alex R. Piquero.创刊初期： Fox 担任创刊主编约七年，其后主编职位先后由 John H. Laub、Michael Maltz、David McDowall、James P. Lynch 与 Alex R. Piquero 担任。*
• Publisher changes: The original publisher was Plenum, which later morphed into Kluwer and then into Springer. The publisher's ability to typeset mathematical formulae and complex tables cleanly was one of the selling points the journal used to attract authors in its early years.出版方变迁： 创刊时出版方为 Plenum，其后演变为 Kluwer，再转入 Springer；出版方在复杂数学符号与表格排版上的能力，正是这本定量刊物早期争取作者的卖点之一。*
• Recent figures: The journal appears four times a year, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.7 and a five-year impact factor of 4.6, a median time from submission to first decision of 11 days, and downloads of about 343,000 in 2025.近年规模： 每年出版四期，2025 年影响因子为 2.7，五年期影响因子为 4.6，投稿至首次决定的中位时长为 11 天，当年下载量约 34.3 万次。*

Editors

• Co-editors-in-chief: The current co-editors-in-chief are P. Jeffrey Brantingham of the University of California, Los Angeles and George Mohler of Boston University, whose work is known respectively for spatial criminology and predictive modelling of crime.共同主编： 现任共同主编为 P. Jeffrey Brantingham 与 George Mohler，前者任职于加州大学洛杉矶分校，后者任职于波士顿大学；两人此前分别以空间犯罪学与犯罪预测建模见长。*
• Previous editors: Before them John H. MacDonald and Greg Ridgeway served as co-editors-in-chief, both of the University of Pennsylvania, and together published the editors' note setting out the journal's intellectual agenda.前任主编： 在此之前，John H. MacDonald 与 Greg Ridgeway 长期担任该刊共同主编，二人均任职于宾夕法尼亚大学，并曾共同刊出阐述该刊办刊愿景的编者按。*
• Managing editor and associate editors: A managing editor runs the day-to-day editorial process, and the associate editors are drawn from institutions including the University of Eastern Finland, George Mason University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Turin and the University at Albany, covering statistical methodology, spatial analysis and policy evaluation.事务编辑与副主编： 期刊另设事务编辑一职负责日常稿件流程，副主编分布于东芬兰大学、乔治梅森大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学、都灵大学、纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校等机构，涵盖统计方法、空间分析与政策评价等方向。*
• Board composition and collections: The editorial board includes scholars from the United States, Israel, Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, and the journal has repeatedly invited outside scholars to guest edit collections on topics such as generative AI and crime and on spatial networks and mobility. The full list is given on the journal's editorial board page.编委构成： 正式编委包括来自美国、以色列、澳大利亚、荷兰、英国、德国与意大利的学者，近年还多次以专集形式邀请外部学者客座主编，主题涉及生成式人工智能与犯罪以及空间网络与流动性；完整名单以期刊官网的编辑页面为准。^[2]