Punishment & Society (PS)

Punishment & Society is an international peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications that serves as a leading forum for research on punishment and penal issues worldwide. It publishes high-quality original research and scholarship addressing punishment, penal institutions, penal control, and their social, cultural, legal, philosophical, and historical dimensions. The journal’s interdisciplinary approach attracts contributions from criminology, sociology, law, political science, and related fields, reflecting diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives. Key topics include penal policy and reform, incarceration, community sanctions, comparative penal systems, race-class-gender analyses, critical penal theory, and the societal impact of punishment practices. Each issue typically includes research articles, review essays, book reviews, and critical debates on emerging issues in the penal field. Since its launch in 1999, Punishment & Society has become central to scholarly debates about contemporary penal developments and the broader social and political contexts of punishment. It is abstracted and indexed in major databases and adheres to high ethical standards in publication.

Punishment & Society (PS) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Law, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), penal institutions, penal control and related socio-legal theory and research. It publishes theoretical, empirical, historical, critical scholarship , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 1462-4745, E-ISSN: 1741-3095, Established: 1999, Impact Factor: 1.4
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE