Social & Legal Studies
Last updated ISSN 0964-6639
Social & Legal Studies is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social & Legal Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Law in Society and Culture
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Sex work and related issues
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- International Law and Human Rights
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0964-6639, 1461-7390 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,848 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | sls.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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