Reviewing crime psychology: introducing a new review journal

The number and variety of journals and books that deal with many different psychological aspects of crime, criminals and the legal process is growing at a rapid rate. Taylor & Francis alone, who publish this new journal, now have at least 25 journals covering the general area of crime and psychology. A simple search of the Taylor & Francis website with the term Forensic Psychology produces 6890 hits. A Google search of ‘Crime Psychology’ gives 26,900 hits. When limiting this search to books or journals, there are still 5490 results. Yet these terms were hardly known a quarter of a century ago