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International Journal of Cyber Criminology
IJCC
January -
June 2009 Volume: 3 Issue: 1
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E ditorial
Sexting: A new form of
Victimless Crime?
K. Jaishankar
Articles
Aim and
Scope
International Journal of
Cyber Criminology (IJCC) is a peer reviewed online (open access) interdisciplinary
journal published biannually and devoted to the study of cyber
crime, cyber criminal behavior, cyber victims, cyber laws and cyber
investigations. IJCC will
focus on all aspects of cyber/computer crime: Forms of Cyber Crime,
Impact of Cyber crimes in the real world, Policing Cyber space,
Cyber-terrorism, International
Perspectives of Cyber Crime, developing cyber safety policy,
intrusion investigations, information security,
Cyber Victims, Cyber
Psychopathology, Geographical aspects of Cybercrime, Cyber offender
behavior, cyber crime law, Cyber Pornography, Physical Computer
Security, Privacy & Anonymity on the Net, Internet Fraud & Identity
Theft, Mobile Phone Safety, Online Gambling, Copyright and
Intellectual property Law, and Detection of Distributed Denial of
Service Attacks. As
the discipline of Cyber Criminology approaches the future, facing
the dire need to document the literature in this rapidly changing
area has become more important than ever before. The IJCC will be a
nodal centre to develop and disseminate the knowledge of cyber
crimes to the academic and lay world. The journal publishes
theoretical, methodological, and applied papers, as well as book
reviews.
Open Access
The International
Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) believes that knowledge is open to
all and it should be freely accessible. IJCC makes all content freely
available to all researchers worldwide, ensuring maximum dissemination
of content through its website. IJCC supports the
views of
Scherlen and Robinson
(2008),
and justifies that open access is the only way to ensure social
justice in the dissemination of criminal justice scholarship
and literature. IJCC also supports
Create Change
in promoting the concept of open access.
Benefits of
publishing in IJCC
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No page/publication charges unlike some open access journals
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Fast submission
and review process
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Research reaches
the community in a timely manner
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Guaranteed
quality - peer review managed by top
international reviewers
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All content is free
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High readership
visibility.
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Publishing in one of the top information system journals.
Creative Commons License
IJCC
articles
are published under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India
license, at the free choice of the authors. Under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India license,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium, share alike, for non-commercial use, provided the original
work is properly cited.
This license does not permit commercial exploitation or the creation of
derivative works without specific permission.
(read
full legal code).
Abstracting
and Indexing
IJCC is
Abstracted/Indexed in
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index,
Directory of Open Access Journals,
EBSCO,
Intute,
J
V Barry Library Australian Institute of Criminology,
Australian Institute of Police Management Library,
University of Portsmouth Library,
J-gate,
and
Index of Information Systems Journals.
Submission of Manuscripts
All manuscripts must be
submitted in APA format. You can
download an APA documentation from here.
Please follow APA guidelines for Manuscript
Preparation, including title page for blind review, referencing, and
tables and figures. All manuscripts will undergo blind review by two
or more reviewers. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement
that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been
submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Authors are
responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material
from other sources and are required to sign an agreement for the
transfer of copyright to the publisher. Rights of manuscripts,
artwork, and photographs has to be transferred to the publisher, upon
the acceptance of the paper for final publication. IJCC
welcomes articles throughout the year. The IJCC encourages quality
scholarship articles from relevant academic disciplines as well as
from practitioners in the private and public sector. IJCC is receptive
to scholarship coming from a variety of theoretical perspectives and
methodological approaches. All research should be understood and
examined through a transnational perspective. Articles previously
published or submitted for publication in any other journal will not
be accepted.
All articles must be grounded
on relevant and recent scholarship in the fields of our interest. The
maximum length should not exceed twenty five pages (8000 words),
including references, notes and illustrations. Please avoid footnotes,
however, endnotes are encouraged. References in the notes should
conform to the mode specified in APA Style. Manuscripts should be
submitted as MS Word attachment to the Editor-in-Chief at
cybercrimejournal@gmail.com or
ijcc@cybercrimejournal.com
Hard
copy submissions will not be processed. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the
right to edit submissions if accepted for publication. Every effort
will be made to inform contributors of the outcome of the peer review
process in a timely manner.
The review process is
via e-mail, and should take no more than 1 to 2 months.
Please send completed
manuscripts by email to
K. Jaishankar
Editor-in-Chief, IJCC,
Department of Criminology and
Criminal Justice
Manonmaniam Sundaranar
University
Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli 627
012
Tamil Nadu India
E-mails
cybercrimejournal@gmail.com
ijcc@cybercrimejournal.com
Website:
http://www.cybercrimejournal. com
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