Probation Journal

The Probation Journal: The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering criminal justice and probation that was established in 1929.^[1][2] It is published by SAGE Publications in association with the National Association of Probation Officers (England).

Probation Journal

Discipline	Criminology
Language	English
Edited by	Jake Phillips
Publication details
History	1929-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications on behalf of the National Association of Probation Officers (England)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Probat. J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0264-5505 (print) 1741-3079 (web)
LCCN	2003214495
OCLC no.	479029178
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Current and former editors

Name	Period of tenure
Jake Phillips	2025 - present
Nicola Carr	2016 - 2024
Lol Burke	2007 - 2016
Hindpal Singh Bhui	1997 - 2007
Nigel Stone	1982 - 1997

Abstracting and indexing

The Probation Journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:

• Academic Premier
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Educational Research Abstracts Online
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts