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To fill the need for a high-quality multi/interdisciplinary maritime crime and security journal, providing a high-level forum for papers that draw together different strands and disciplines, which are not catered for sufficiently by existing literature. IJMCS will be a high-quality venue with the following aims: Publish top-level articles; Publish ‘signposting’ articles or statements of the shape of the discipline; Provide a hub around which the interdisciplinary maritime security community will form; Make a commitment to provide quality empirical research, and to do so in ways Which best support researchers across the field; Address the need for authoritative, foundational, inter/multidisciplinary research; and Publish research articles and review papers that are grounded in real-world implications and solutions. To these ends, the IJMCS will seek to: make a significant and formative contribution towards the human understanding of security in the maritime domain; make an instrumental and formative contribution towards the creation and development of a rigorous, scholarly and genuinely interdisciplinary approach to the study of maritime security and its interrelationship with maritime policy and maritime safety; stimulate and inform interdisciplinary research and teaching in the sphere of maritime security; and Develop ideas and stimulate debate in order to contribute to a sustained cycle of improvement in the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of maritime security governance, products, and services. The study of maritime crime and security is an international growth area, while criminology, crime science, and policing studies are a burgeoning area for research which has not acknowledged the maritime dimension, just as maritime studies have neglected crime. They seem distinct areas but are inextricably linked and highly newsworthy and work together. The IJMCS is what is needed to bridge the gap and will support the publication of research within these fields as well as the creation of a new interdisciplinary community.  

Journal Discovery Infrastructure

IJMCS is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. IJMCS is committed to publish all full-text articles online for immediate open access to readers and there is no charge to download articles and editorial comments for their own scholarly use.

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