Authors who publish in the Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour retain copyright of their work while granting the journal the right to first publication. All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

By submitting their work, authors agree to this licensing arrangement and acknowledge that their contributions will be freely available to the public to support the dissemination of knowledge and research in the field of intellectual disabilities and offending behaviour.