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…
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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.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–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 in | Law in Society and Culture Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Judicial and Constitutional Studies Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
| ISSN | 0964-6639 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.27 |
| h-index | 66 |
| i10-index | 536 |
| Total citations | 22,904 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Keele University |
| Journal website | sls.sagepub.com |
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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…
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…
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’,…
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…