Artificial Intelligence Policy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

The Jurisocial Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI and large language model (LLM) tools, is increasingly used in academic research, writing, editing, translation, data analysis, and other scholarly activities. The journal permits the responsible use of AI-assisted technologies, provided that such use is consistent with academic integrity, transparency, originality, accuracy, confidentiality, and research responsibility.

Responsible Use of AI by Authors

Authors may use AI-assisted tools for legitimate scholarly purposes, including language improvement, grammar and spelling correction, translation, formatting, brainstorming, literature organization, coding, data analysis, and other appropriate research-related activities.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and scholarly reliability of the entire manuscript, including any content produced or modified with AI assistance. Authors must carefully review and verify AI-assisted content, particularly citations, references, quotations, factual statements, research findings, data, and statistical results.

Disclosure of AI Use

Authors should disclose the use of AI where it has been used substantively in the preparation, analysis, or production of a manuscript.

Where disclosure is appropriate, authors should identify the AI tool used and briefly describe its purpose and nature of use. Routine use of basic tools for spelling, grammar, formatting, or language correction does not ordinarily require detailed disclosure.

A suitable disclosure may be included in the Acknowledgements, Methodology, or another appropriate section of the manuscript.

AI and Authorship

AI tools, including ChatGPT and other generative AI systems, cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship carries responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, ethical compliance, and final approval of published work. These responsibilities remain with the human author(s).

Originality, Plagiarism, and AI-Generated Content

The use of AI does not exempt authors from the journal's requirements concerning plagiarism, copyright, attribution, and research integrity.

Authors must ensure that AI-assisted content does not contain improperly reproduced or unattributed material. AI-generated references and citations must be independently verified by the authors.

The journal may use appropriate editorial tools and human assessment to identify potential concerns relating to originality, fabricated references, inaccurate information, or publication misconduct. The journal will not rely solely on an AI-detection score or automated indicator to determine whether misconduct has occurred.

AI-Assisted Research and Analysis

Where AI is used substantially for data analysis, coding, statistical analysis, generation of tables or figures, qualitative analysis, or other research processes, authors should provide sufficient information about its role where relevant to the understanding and reproducibility of the research.

Authors remain responsible for validating all AI-assisted outputs, results, interpretations, and conclusions.

Confidentiality and Use of AI by Editors and Reviewers

Editors and peer reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and unpublished research. They should not upload confidential manuscripts, peer-review materials, or privileged information into external AI systems where confidentiality cannot be adequately assured.

AI tools must not replace the independent scholarly judgment of editors or reviewers.

Editorial Assessment of AI Use

The Jurisocial Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice does not consider the mere use of AI-assisted technology to be research misconduct. The journal's primary concern is whether AI use has compromised the originality, accuracy, integrity, transparency, authorship, confidentiality, or scholarly quality of the manuscript.

Where concerns arise regarding undisclosed or inappropriate AI use, the editorial team may request clarification from the authors and take appropriate action under the journal's publication-ethics and misconduct policies.

This policy may be reviewed and updated periodically in response to developments in artificial intelligence, scholarly communication, research integrity, and recognized international publication-ethics standards.