A Content Analysis of Criminal Justice Policy Review,1986-2008

Abstract

Academic disciplines have been characterized as static institutions that do not change or conform to outside forces. Abbott and Silbey have discussed this issue in relationship to how the history of refereed journals in the social sciences can provide information on department, institution, and disciplinary changes that often wear a false guise of continuity. This article analyzes the content of Criminal Justice Policy Review by replicating the methodology Silbey used to study the content of Law & Society Review in terms of editorship, authorship, article contents, method and mode of research, and article topics. The results indicate that although changes in the content of Criminal Justice Policy Review over time may be small, they exist and most correspond with changes in the department, institution, and discipline. Changes in journal content also appear to have been influenced by changes in editorial philosophy and increasing interest in raising the stature of the journal within the discipline.

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content analysis criminal justice policy journal content

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