The Journal

With the Journal of Criminology, Victimology and Security (RCVS), we aim to reflect on critical issues such as crime, its victims, and security challenges, which have become priorities in today’s society. While these aspects stem from diverse factors, they require integrated solutions, openly contrasting any form of simplification or rigid dichotomy. Indeed, every era has felt itself in transition toward something new, marked by the creaking of the old under the pressure of an imprecise future shaped by various forms of vulnerability. Vulnerability itself becomes a key lens for analysis, proposing nuanced solutions that embrace contradictions and encourage critical, innovative approaches to security in an increasingly complex context. These social transformations, capable of generating new opportunities for life and development but also of domination, oppression, and violence, inevitably influence the training of those responsible for social security and control. Thus, it is highly relevant—scientifically and culturally-politically—to provide a space where criminologists, victimologists, sociologists, psychologists, pedagogists, legal professionals, social and legal scholars, and security experts can collaborate to design intervention strategies in a society characterized by complexity and ambiguity. Special attention is given to recognizing and restoring agency to individuals whose lives are marked by critical processes leading to hardship or despair. In this perspective, the Journal of Criminology, Victimology and Security will also welcome contributions addressing theoretical aspects of victimology without neglecting the importance of building relationships and critically interpreting reality for those involved in victim support processes.