About the Journal

Journal Description

Asian Crime and Society Review (Formerly: International Journal of Crime, Law and Social Issues; e-ISSN: 2730-3691 & RSU International Journal of College of Government; ISSN: 2351-0854) is an electronic open access journal published twice a year in English by the Association of Legal & Political Studies (Thailand) and White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. (Thailand) in cooperation with the Criminal Justice Department, Midwestern State University (USA) and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University (Thailand). The aim of ACSR is to provide a platform for disseminating strong, current, and interdisciplinary academic proposals and research findings on crime and society in Asia, including comparisons between countries in the region and other regions. ACSR accepts both research and review article and has an open review format by at least 3 experts before publication.

 

Scopes

Asian Crime and Society Review is an “interdisciplinary” journal, accepting papers from all fields of study, both science-technology and humanities-social sciences, which are related to Asia, including comparisons between countries in the region and other regions regarding “crime” and “society” includes but not limited to the following:

1) Criminology and criminal justice, such as crime prevention, crime statistics, criminal behavior, fear of crime, and juvenile delinquency.

2) Law, such as criminal law, civil rights law, international law, immigration law, and environmental law.

3) Other topics related to crime and society, such as forensic science, social sustainability, quality of life, inequality, and Society 5.0. 

 

Article Types

ACSR accepts 2 types of articles to be considered for publication: research articles and review articles.

 

Publication Frequency

There are 2 volumes each year and each volume will be published every 6 months namely:

• 1st Volume, from January-June

• 2nd Volume, from July-December

 

Peer Review Process

All papers included in this journal were open peer reviewed by at least three suitably qualified experts. All publication decisions are made by the editors on the basis of the reviews provided.

 

Languages

English

 

Copyrights

Asian Crime and Society Review is an fully open-access publication: in accordance with this definition, all copyright holders of the scholarly works published in ACSR grant usage rights to others using an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) open license allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. Users of ACSR content must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the work and indicate if changes were made.

 

Journal History

Year

A.D.

Events

1

2014

The first issue was published under the name “RSU International Journal of College of Government” and ISSN: 2351-0862 by the Association of Legal & Political Studies (formerly: Political Science Association of Kasetsart University) in cooperation with the College of Government, Rangsit University. Using the Double-Blind Peer Review format for screening articles by 2 experts.

3

2016

Indexed in Social Science Research Network. (Resulting in the status of an international journal according to the Thailand’s Higher Education Commissioner’s 2013 Regulations on Criteria to Consider Academic Journals for Publishing Academic Papers)

Indexed in Ingenta Connect.

Indexed in Index Copernicus.

Indexed in Google Scholar.

4

2017

College of Government, Rangsit University has been excluded as a co-publisher.

Criminal Justice Department, Midwestern State University has joined as a co-publisher.

 

 

Changed name to “International Journal of Crime, Law and Social Issues”.

7

2020

Changed the publishing format to be an electronic journal (with the open access model) on the Thai Journals Online (ThaiJO) system under the e-ISSN: 2730-3691 with the DOI: 10.14456/ijclsi.Year of Publication.Article No.

8

2021

Indexed in TCI (Tier 1). (Resulting in the status of a national journal according to the Thailand’s Higher Education Commissioner’s 2019 Regulations on Criteria to Consider Academic Journals for Publishing Academic Papers)

9

2022

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University has joined as a co-publisher.

Increased the number of experts responsible for reviewing articles from 2 to 3. (According to the Thailand’s Higher Education Commissioner’s 2021 Regulations on the Criteria and Procedures for Appointing Persons to be Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Professors (No. 4))

Changed the article reviewing format from Double-Blind Peer Review to Open Peer Review.

10

2023

White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. has joined as a co-owner.

Changed name to “Asian Crime and Society Review”, e-ISSN: 3027-6896 and DOI: 10.14456/acsr.Year of Publication.Article No.

 

Ownership and Management

Asian Crime and Society Review (ACSR) is owned by the Association of Legal & Political Studies (Thailand) and White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. (Thailand). It is published under the academic cooperation of both institutions with the Criminal Justice Department, Midwestern State University (USA.) and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University (Thailand). ALPS is primarily responsible for academic operations, while the WTLBRC is primarily responsible for management and finances. MSU Texas and BRU have the main duties of supporting academic operations, such as serving as editors/reviewers and providing suggestions to improve the quality of the journal.

 

Revenue Sources, Advertising, and Direct Marketing Policy

Asian Crime and Society Review (ACSR) operates without funding from any government or private sector. Association of Legal & Political Studies and White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. shared all costs of publishing the journal until it was able to earn enough money from article processing charges to cover expenses. This means that ACSR's current source of revenue is primarily the fees it collects from authors who submit their articles.

ACSR maintains a policy of not accepting advertisements from any external entities.

In promoting the journal and publications to the public, ACSR attempts to avoid actions detrimental to other parties (e.g., spreading spam) and to avoid misleading information between prospective authors and the publishers.