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Social & Legal Studies Template

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About the Social & Legal Studies format

Social & Legal Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Law in Society and Culture, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Judicial and Constitutional Studies.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Social & Legal Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inLaw in Society and Culture Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Judicial and Constitutional Studies Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
ISSN0964-6639
Citation impact (2-yr)1.27
h-index66
i10-index536
Total citations22,904
Top institutions publishing hereKeele University
Journal websitesls.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Social & Legal Studies per year

46
2014
53
2015
55
2016
68
2017
70
2018
49
2019
73
2020
49
2021
58
2022
65
2023
74
2024
52
2025

Citation impact of Social & Legal Studies by publication year

760
2014
548
2015
672
2016
1K
2017
786
2018
498
2019
665
2020
326
2021
315
2022
231
2023
176
2024
25
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Social & Legal Studies

Plural Policing and Democratic Governance

Ian Loader · 1 Sep 2000

This article asks how we might best come to terms with - and seek to govern - the multiplicity of institutional forms that are now involved in the delivery of policing and security services and technologies. I begin by documenting briefly the network of providers that constitute the policing field locally, nationally and transnationally, before…

Jurisdiction and Scale: Legal `Technicalities' as Resources for Theory

Mariana Valverde · 20 May 2009

Since the 1980s, critical studies of law and space have fruitfully explored the insight that law's mechanisms can be understood in part as mapping exercises. Existing work on law's scales (especially that using a post-colonial studies frame) has delved into the qualitative as well as the quantitative dimensions of scale, thus exposing some key epistemological…

Constructing the `Right To the City' in Brazil

Edésio Fernándes · 9 May 2007

While there has been a growing utilization of Henri Lefebvre's concept of the `right to the city', not much has been said about the legal implications of such a concept. This article discusses the main aspects of the legal construction of the `right to the city' in Brazil. Following a discussion of Lefebvre's contribution to…

Sexual Violence in the Digital Age

Nicola Henry, Anastasia Powell · 12 Jan 2016

Considerable scholarly attention has been paid to a range of criminal behaviours that are perpetrated with the aid of digital technologies. Much of this focus, however, has been on high-tech computer crimes, such as hacking, online fraud and identity theft, or child exploitation material and cyberbullying. Less attention has been paid to ‘technology-facilitated sexual violence’,…

Virtual Criminality: Old Wine in New Bottles?

Peter Grabosky · 1 Jun 2001

IT HAS become trite to suggest that the convergence of computing andcommunications has begun to change the way we live, and the way wecommit crime. Whether this will necessitate a revision of our philosophi-cal, historical and sociological assumptions, however, is another matter. One must beware of overgeneralization and hyperbole, which characterize a great deal of…

Social & Legal Studies template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Social & Legal Studies format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Social & Legal Studies template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Social & Legal Studies use?
Social & Legal Studies uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Social & Legal Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Social & Legal Studies?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Social & Legal Studies document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Social & Legal Studies template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Social & Legal Studies format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Social & Legal Studies?
Social & Legal Studies is a multidisciplinary journal published by SAGE. DocuGuru's Social & Legal Studies template matches SAGE's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Social & Legal Studies PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Social & Legal Studies template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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