Set up in the summer of 2003, [jc2m] is an independent, non-profit making e-journal which seeks to publish international research concerned with representations of, and inter-relations between, crime and conflict in mass media and popular culture.

Its editorial board reflects expertise and experience across these subject areas, and a common desire to exchange and promote advanced research and scholarship.

[jc2m] will disseminate,as widely as possible, high quality, inter-disciplinary work through the Internet. The journal is aimed at international academics and practitioners in the fields of, amongst others, criminology, cultural studies, journalism, law, mass media & communication and sociology.

[jc2m] is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal with the ISSN number 1741-1580, as registered with the British Library.