Punishment and Society

Aims & Scope

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.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.4
2024	2.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.176

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	73

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	3679

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	498

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Deadly Symbiosis

  Citation: 833

  Authors: LOÏC

• Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment

  Citation: 525

  Authors: Ben

• Governing Social Marginality

  Citation: 334

  Authors: KATHERINE, BRUCE

• Criminogenic needs and the transformative risk subject

  Citation: 292

  Authors: Kelly

• What is a “history of the present”? On Foucault’s genealogies and their critical preconditions

  Citation: 259

  Authors: David

• Restorative justice

  Citation: 221

  Authors: Kathleen

• Devolving the carceral state: Race, prisoner reentry, and the micro-politics of urban poverty management

  Citation: 201

  Authors: Reuben Jonathan

• Moral performance, inhuman and degrading treatment and prison pain

  Citation: 199

  Authors: Alison

• Reentry as a rite of passage

  Citation: 194

  Authors: Shadd

• Emotion and performance

  Citation: 172

  Authors: Elaine M.

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