POLICÍA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
Generalities
Focus and Scope
Publisher
Financing model
Editorial process
Legal deposit
Focus and Scope
Revista Criminalidad (Rev. Crim.) is a publication aimed at disclosing original investigation and research results as well as unpublished works offering significant contributions to the fields of criminology, criminality and related disciplines. Likewise, it exposes quantitative and qualitative analyses and information regarding crimes and infringements in the Colombian territory.
This journal is addressed to the national and international scientific-academic community carrying out studies relating to its thematic area. It is a publication of the Criminal Investigation Directorate and INTERPOL –DIJIN– of the National Police of Colombia, released three times a year: in April, August, and December.
Publisher
The journal Revista Criminalidad (Rev. Crim.) is published by Dirección de Investigación Criminal e INTERPOL –DIJIN– de la Policía Nacional de Colombia since 1950.
Financing model
The printed and virtual edition of the Criminality Magazine is financed with resources managed by the Criminal Investigation Directorate and INTERPOL of the National Police of Colombia, through the budgetary programming carried out by the National Police before the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Colombia.
Revista Criminalidad can receive donations and sponsorships from natural and legal persons according to the protocols of the National Police.
Editorial process
- With no exception, articles received will be subject to an external peer-evaluation process.
- Reception and evaluation of articles does not necessarily imply acceptance and publication thereof.
- The selection process for those contributions including the statement of originality begins, with verification, by the Editorial Board, of compliance with the current standards, as well as the appropriateness and relevance of the manuscript with relation to editorial policies. The author(s) shall be notified of the observations arising during this process.
- After this review, the article will be sent to at least two evaluating peers for them to decide on the scientific and academic quality of the manuscript. The assessment will be an anonymous two-way process, and the evaluators may make suggestions to the author.
- If the evaluation results are conflicting, the article shall be sent to a third academic peer. However, the Editorial Board reserves the right to their last word regarding acceptance of writings submitted.
- Authors must introduce the adjustment suggested by the academic peers and the Editorial Board.
- Only those articles having obtained the favorable opinion or the evaluating peers and the Editorial Board can be published.
- The duration of this process is about eight (8) weeks.
Legal deposit
In accordance with article 213 "Deposit for exchange of publications" of Decree No. 0019 of 2012, article 7 of Law 44 of 1993 and article 25 of Decree 460 of 1995, the Criminality Magazine will make a legal deposit in the National Newspaper Library, the National Library of Colombia and the Library of Congress of the Republic.
