Punishment & Society
| Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Professor Mona Lynch | University of California, Irvine, USA |
Punishment & Society is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control. It advances and refines the impressive body of work that has emerged in this field over the last two decades, and is a source of informed commentary and criticism regarding the penal policies and practices of our time.
Punishment & Society includes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including criminology and penology; the sociology of punishment and penal institutions; penal history; penal law; sentencing theory and the philosophy of punishment.
It also includes a lively book review section, reviewing the most important new books and publications. It features review essays, symposia and debates as well as shorter reviews, ensuring readers are kept up-to-date on what has been published in this expanding field.
"The articles, and indeed notes and reviews, are well written, lively and highly topical. It is what a proper scholarly journal should aspire to - international, interdisciplinary and interesting. It is a journal not just for the prison "train spotters" but for all those who recognise the centrality of discourses on punishment and social control to an understanding who and what we are in the 21st Century." Kieran McEvoy
"The legitimacy of punishment, the relationship between prisons, market society and social order: all these are in question, and Punishment & Society promises to be the journal of choice for those who have these questions at heart." Michael Ignatieff, author of A Just Measure of Pain: Penitientiaries in the Industrial Revolution
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Electronic access:
Punishment & Society is available online.
Punishment & Society is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control.
| Vanessa Barker | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Alessandro De Giorgi | San José State University, USA |
| Katherine Beckett | University of Washington, USA |
| Malcolm M Feeley | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Katja Franko Aas | University of Oslo, Norway |
| David Garland | New York University, USA |
| Marie Gottschalk | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Alison Liebling | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Shadd Maruna | University of Manchester, UK |
| Dario Melossi | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Joachim Savelsberg | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Jonathan Simon | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Sonja Snacken | Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
| Maximo Sozzo | National University of Litoral, Argentina |
| Richard Sparks | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Dirk van Zyl Smit | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Bruce Western | Harvard University, USA |
| Hans-Jörg Albrecht | Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law, Germany |
| Anthony Bottoms | University of Cambridge, UK |
| David Brown | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Kitty Calavita | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Pat Carlen | University of Kent, UK |
| Michael Cavadino | University of Central Lancashire, UK |
| Leonidas K. Cheliotis | London School of Economics, UK |
| Todd R. Clear | John Jay College, USA |
| Andrew Coyle | King's College London, UK |
| Ben Crewe | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Kathleen Daly | Griffith University, Australia |
| Anthony Doob | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Markus Dubber | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Antony Duff | University of Stirling, UK |
| Johannes Feest | Universitat Bremen, Germany |
| Barry Feld | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Benjamin D Fleury-Steiner | University of Delaware, USA |
| Arie Freiberg | Monash University, Australia |
| Alice Goffman | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| David Greenberg | New York University, USA |
| Chris Hale | University of Kent, UK |
| Adrian Howe | RMIT University, Australia |
| David T. Johnson | University of Hawaii, USA |
| Aaron C. Kupchik | University of Delaware, USA |
| Nicola Lacey | London School of Economics, UK |
| Karen Laidler | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Elena Larrauri Pijoan | Pompeu Fabra University, Spain |
| René Levy | CESDIP, France |
| Mike Maguire | University of Wales, Cardiff, UK |
| Reuben Jonathan Miller | University of Michigan, USA |
| Rod Morgan | University of Bristol, UK |
| Jeffrie Murphy | Arizona State University, USA |
| David Nelken | University of Macerata, Italy |
| Pat O'Malley | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Joshua Page | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Massimo Pavarini | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Laura Piacentini | University of Strathclyde, UK |
| John Pratt | University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nicole Hahn Rafter | Northeastern University, USA |
| Rani Dhavan Shankardass | Secretary General, Penal Reform and Justice Association, Gurgaon, India and President, Penal Reform International, London, UK |
| Joe Sim | Liverpool John Moore's University, UK |
| Pieter Spierenburg | Erasmus University, Netherlands |
| John Sutton | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| René Van Swaaningen | Erasmus University, Netherlands |
| Andrew von Hirsch | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Peter Young | University of Hull, UK |
| Lucia Zedner | University of Oxford, UK |
| Franklin E. Zimring | William G. Simon Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Punishment & Society
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pun to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Punishment & Society will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to Punishment & Society, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Punishment & Society includes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including criminology and penology; the sociology of punishment and penal institutions; penal history; penal law; sentencing theory and the philosophy of punishment.
It also includes a lively book review section, reviewing the most important new books and publications. It features review essays, symposia and debates as well as shorter reviews, ensuring readers are kept up-to-date on what has been published in this expanding field.
The maximum length for articles is 8,000 words, including tables, references, and notes.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Punishment & Society operates a strictly anonymous peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed. All manuscripts that meet the scholarly and editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review. Each manuscript considered for publication is reviewed by at least two referees.
As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
• The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
• The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
• Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted
Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
Punishment & Society requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
Punishment & Society encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Punishment & Society and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Punishment & Society offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Punishment & Society adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Punishment & Society is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pun to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
All papers (except for book reviews) must be submitted via the online system. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please refer to the ‘Further Information’ section below. .
Book reviews should be sent to:
In Americas and Pacific Rim
Alessandro De Giorgi
Department of Justice Studies
San José State University
1 Washington Square
San José
California
95192-0050
United States
Email: alessandro.degiorgi@sjsu.edu
In Europe and the Rest of the World
Vanessa Barker
Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: vanessa.barker@sociology.su.se
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognised.
We encourage all authors to add their ORCIDs to their SAGE Track accounts and include their ORCIDs as part of the submission process. If you don’t already have one you can create one here
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Punishment & Society editorial office as follows: