TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, Race, and Authorship in Criminological and Criminal Justice Journals
T2 - A New Look With an Old Result
AU - Sever, Brion
AU - Canales Crespo, Krystal
AU - Baer, Erica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Georgia State University.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - There is a wealth of research that has tested faculty productivity in criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals over the past 30 years, although only a modest proportion of these studies have analyzed the gender of authors publishing in CCJ journals. Moreover, only a couple of studies have assessed the race of the authors in these journals, with their focus placed on either African American productivity or the comparison of non-White and White authors. The present study examines 1,836 journal articles in 14 journals from 2016 to 2018, including the top eight CCJ journals, the top three sociology and psychology journals, and the top three gender-focused journals in the area of crime and justice. We broke author productivity in these journals down by specific demographic categories and found that White men account for the majority of authors publishing in the CCJ journals, followed by White women. We also found that the advances for women authors found in some journals are primarily due to White women authors, as the production of all minority groups in the journals remains low regardless of gender.
AB - There is a wealth of research that has tested faculty productivity in criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals over the past 30 years, although only a modest proportion of these studies have analyzed the gender of authors publishing in CCJ journals. Moreover, only a couple of studies have assessed the race of the authors in these journals, with their focus placed on either African American productivity or the comparison of non-White and White authors. The present study examines 1,836 journal articles in 14 journals from 2016 to 2018, including the top eight CCJ journals, the top three sociology and psychology journals, and the top three gender-focused journals in the area of crime and justice. We broke author productivity in these journals down by specific demographic categories and found that White men account for the majority of authors publishing in the CCJ journals, followed by White women. We also found that the advances for women authors found in some journals are primarily due to White women authors, as the production of all minority groups in the journals remains low regardless of gender.
KW - criminal justice
KW - criminology and criminal justice scholarship
KW - diversity in criminology and criminal justice
KW - gender
KW - inclusion in criminology and criminal justice
KW - race
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85188416164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/07340168241239333
DO - 10.1177/07340168241239333
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85188416164
SN - 0734-0168
JO - Criminal Justice Review
JF - Criminal Justice Review
ER -