The Institute for Criminal  Justice Research & Consulting (ICJRC)

The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) and Student Outreach

Another core belief of The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) is to help introduce criminal justice, social science, and other interested students, both undergraduates and graduates, to the world of criminal justice research.  Unlike other organizations, JCJR does not charge membership fees for access to JCJR research publications.

One method of student outreach by JCJR is to provide free membership to college and university student organizations and student societies, and students themselves if they do not belong to such a group.  As it is very important for students to familiarize themselves with current research in their field, and membership to a scholarly organization is always a "plus", The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) is committed to reaching out to the next generation of scholars and practitioners in several ways:

• The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) will host a semi-annual student paper competition*

• The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) will provide a list of College and University Criminal Justice and related social science student groups and organizations on this webpage in order to promote these beneficial organizations (Organizational Membership is required for this.  Please contact JCJR in order to request the required form).
  

• The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) will offer membership to interested students, free of charge.  The benefits of membership include being notified, via email, when new research is published directly on the JCJR webpage and being part of the overall JCJR community.
  

Join JCJR as a Student Member

For students interested in joining The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR), please send an email to students@icjrc.org and be sure to provide the following information:

• Your full name
• Your major
  
• Your educational position/rank
• The name of your college or university
• The town, state, and country of your college or university
  
• Your primary email address

Please remember that membership to JCJR is entirely free of charge.  Unlike other organizations, JCJR does not charge "discounted" student membership fees for access to JCJR publications.  As membership to scholarly organizations can certainly benefit students, JCJR is proud to offer this for free.

All student members will be listed on this webpage and will be notified, via email, when new research is published online in JCJR.

For any other questions regarding student membership, please contact students@icjrc.org

Judging Parameters

Each paper will be scored from 1-10 according to the following 6 criteria.

A score of 10 being best with a total score of 60 being a perfect paper.  Papers rated closest to 60 will be the winning papers.  The following 6 criteria will be used in rating each paper: 

1) Overall Significance  /10

2) Research Contribution  /10

3) Integration of Theory  /10

4) Integration of Scientific Literature  /10

5) Methodological Contribution  /10

6) Quality of the Writing  /10

 Total Rating     /60

All submitted papers for the student paper contest will be judged using the above mentioned criteria.  Winners will be selected following a committee meeting between the Chair of the paper competition, Police Officer Timothy Nolan and the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR), Anthony Sciarabba.

Additionally, winning papers will be published on this Student Outreach webpage.  Authors of the winning papers may wish to submit their manuscripts for official peer-review for publication consideration in The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR).  Authors wishing to do so must contact the Editor-in-Chief for official manuscript submission guidelines.

The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR) wishes all participating students the best of luck!