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crim-review-process

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Use to understand how Criminology (ASC / Wiley) evaluates a manuscript — blinded/anonymized peer review, editorial screening, the typical reject / major-revision / minor-revision / accept outcomes, and what expert reviewers weigh in this interdisciplinary, theory-forward field. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.

When to use

• Stress-test against likely rejection grounds
• Interpreting a decision letter
• Understanding what expert reviewers weigh
• Deciding whether to revise-and-resubmit or send elsewhere
• Executable review pass
• Return a ledger of claim, evidence, risk, and location
• Sibling journal comparison
• Check for volatile rules in official source map

When not to use

• Contacting editors
• Simultaneous submission to another journal
• Submitting a program-evaluation paper better fit for Criminology & Public Policy
• Submitting a bare crime correlation with no theory
• Ignoring measurement validity or the dark figure
• Expecting acceptance without a revision round

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