Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Soc. Leg. Stud. Publisher SAGE Publications Frequency Quarterly | Discipline Sociology Publication history 1992-present | |
Edited by Carl F. Stychin, David Campbell, David Cowan, Marie B. Fox | ||
Social & Legal Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers feminist, post-colonial, and socialist economic perspectives to the study of law and criminology. The editors-in-chief are Carl Stychin (University of Reading), David Campbell (University of Leeds), David Brown (University of Bristol), and Marie Fox (University of Birmingham). It was established in 1992 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
Social & Legal Studies is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Premier, the Legal Journals Index, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 0.673, ranking it 28th out of 46 journals in the category "Criminology and Penology", 76 out of 133 journals in the category "Law", and 40th out of 84 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary".