About Journal of Financial Crime
Aims and scope
Journal of Financial Crime (JFC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes authoritative, theoretical and empirical analyses on the most serious and topical issues relating to the control and prevention of financial crime.
The articles published in Journal of Financial Crime are authored by some of the leading international scholars and practitioners in the field of financial crime. The journal welcomes submissions from across the globe.
The journal focuses on the following areas:
- Fraud
- Victims of fraud and financial crime
- Bribery and corruption
- Whistleblowing
- Financial crime investigation and enforcement
- Tax crime
- Alternative sanctions
- Financial crimes associated with cryptoassets and cyberspace.
Submissions primarily focused on anti-money laundering (AML) fall outside the scope of the Journal of Financial Crime. Authors are encouraged to consider the Journal of Money Laundering Control as a more appropriate publication outlet for such topics.
The journal is committed to publishing rigorous and impactful research. Submissions must demonstrate strong scholarship and offer clear theoretical, practical, or policy insights into preventing or controlling financial crime, with relevance that extends beyond national boundaries and appeals to an international readership.
While the journal embraces interdisciplinary perspectives, it remains firmly grounded in criminology and the social sciences. Therefore, all contributions should engage meaningfully with criminological theories, debates, or methodologies. We do not consider papers whose primary focus or implications lie in other fields, such as economics or finance.
We welcome robust conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodologies. We do not consider submissions that prioritise technical or econometric modelling at the expense of substantive criminological insight. Similarly, studies based on bibliometric analysis or literature reviews must critically engage with theoretical and substantive criminology debates and offer original and meaningful contributions, rather than merely reporting descriptive trends.
All submissions must follow the journal’s manuscript requirements. The Journal of Financial Crime operates a rigorous double blind peer-review process. Submissions are initially evaluated by the Editors, and if deemed suitable, are sent to at least two independent reviewers for expert assessment.
Submissions are assessed based on the extent to which they contribute new knowledge to the field of financial crime, as well as on the overall quality, coherence, and clarity of their argument and presentation.
