Social & Legal Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Social & Legal Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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The Language of Violence: Exploring the Contested Relationship Between Violence Against Women and Sex-Work/Prostitution14
Making Legal Knowledge Work: Practising Proportionality in the German Repetitorium13
Indigenous Housing Rights and Colonial Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Housing Rights beyond a White Possessive Frame12
Workers’ Perspectives on State-Constructed Vulnerability to Labour Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Fishers in Ireland12
Book Review: Torture as State Crime: A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer12
Civil Legal Services and Survivor-Defined Justice: A Qualitative Study with US Civil Legal Attorneys for Sexual Assault Survivors11
Fast Refugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control10
Fake News in Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections: A Systems Theory Approach to Judicial and Legal Responses10
Book Review: Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law10
Re-viewing Video Evidence and Police Violence in the Criminal Courts in Turkey8
Book Review: The Sociology of Law as The Science of Norms by HÅKAN HYDÉN7
Problematising the ‘Man Problem’ in the Domestic Abuse Act: Discursive Co-option and The (In)Visibility of Gender6
Living with a Sense of a Right to Hope6
Understanding Populism5
Book Review: The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity5
Does Gender Blindness Improve Gender Equality? Female Judges and the Glass Ceiling Effect in the Islamic Judicial System in Indonesia5
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons From Ecuador by SILVANA TAPIA TAPIA5
Settler Colonialism and the South African TRC: Ambivalent Denial and Democratisation Without Decolonisation5
The Governance of Complaints in UK Higher Education: Critically Examining ‘Remedies’ for Staff Sexual Misconduct5
Introduction: Democratic Constitutionalism in a Populist Age5
Exploring the Links Between Racial Exclusion and Human Trafficking of Migrant Workers in Qatar4
Collective Dissent as Legal Consciousness in Contemporary British Theatre4
Book Review: Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences4
Digital Colonialism Beyond Surveillance Capitalism? Coloniality of Knowledge in Nigeria's Emerging Privacy Rights Legislation and Border Surveillance Practices4
Book Review: Children’s Rights, ‘Foreign Fighters’, Counter-Terrorism: Children of Nowhere by RUMYANA VAN ARK, DEVYANI PRABHAT AND FAITH GORDON4
The Communicative Space: Painting the Evidence and Plausibility in Asylum Court Hearings4
Book Review: Immigration Judicial Reviews: An Empirical Study4
Book Review: Law and Social Policy in the Global South4
‘POSTED: No Trespassing’: On the Performativity of Property and Gender as Intertwined Social Practices of Power4
Book Review: Victimhood, Memory and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo4
‘I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar!’: #March4Justice and the Desire for Law to Listen4
The Changing Natures of the Medical Register: Doctors, Precarity, and Crisis3
Kinder Justice: Communicating Legitimacy to Children in Sentencing Courts3
Disability Law in a Pandemic: The Temporal Folds of Medico-legal Violence3
Let Me Move: A Legal Analysis of Residence Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers in Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands3
Embedding digital economy: Fictitious triple movement in the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act3
The Lesser of Two Evils? Explaining Chinese Rural Migrant Workers’ Preference for On-demand Food Delivery Work With Reference to the Legal Framework3
Book Review: Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement3
Lay Advisers in Family law Settings: The Role and Quality of Advice Provided on Social media2
Book Review: Leading Works in Criminal Law2
Efficiency Over Accuracy?: Exploring Front-Line Practitioners’ Experiences and Opinions on the “Guilty Plea System”2
Vexatious or Vulnerable: Permitted Roles for Litigants in Person in Civil Courts2
Book Review: Contract Law and the Legislature: Autonomy, Expectations, and the Making of Legal Doctrine2
Acts of Violence? Anti-Conversion Laws in India2
‘Circling the Drain’: The Emotional ‘Dirty’ Work of Legal Aid Workers2
Lethal Force, Legal Consciousness and the Social Field of Policing2
Symbiotic Justice: Hate Crimes, Police Humiliation, and Layered Legal Consciousness in Dalit Human Rights2
Social Control and Homeless Encampments: Shifting the Role of Shelters Through Judicial Review2
“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo2
Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity2
On Oil Flow and Coral Enclosure: Climate Changes in the Red Sea2
Book Review: Neoliberalism and Punishment by IGNACIO GONZÁLEZ SÁNCHEZ SÁNCHEZIGNACIO GONZÁLEZ, Neoliberalism and Punishment. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, p. 180, ISBN: 9782
Is Anti-FGM Legislation Cultural Imperialism? Interrogating Kenya's Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act2
‘Back Off! Stop Making US Illegal!’: The Criminalisation of Homelessness in Australia2
Indigenous parents and child welfare: Mistrust, epistemic injustice, and training2
Affects of Objectivity: Decision-Making Practices in the Dutch Asylum Procedure2
Tort Law and Feminist Strategy: Lessons from Social Movement and Community Lawyering2
‘Gold Standard' Legislation for Adults Only: Reconceptualising Children as ‘Adjoined Victims' Under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 20182
Book Review: Historical Criminology2
Housing and Social Control: Reassessing the Protection Asymmetries of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights2
Book Review: The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age1
Book Review: Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility1
Why women judges really matter: The impact of women judges on property law outcomes in Kenya1
Reconceptualising ‘risk’: Towards a humanistic paradigm of sexual offending1
“The Law is too Grey”: Liminal Legality and Moral Injury in Encounters with Drug Law Enforcement1
A Precondition for Justice: Political Listening, Feminism and Sexual Violence1
Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic: Political Uses and Social Consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary1
External Intimacy: Community-based Intervention Concerning Crime and the Integral State in Quebec1
Between ‘I’ and ‘They’: Distributing Authorship for Evidence-Making: How Asylum Lawyers Construct Credible Accounts Before the French Court of Asylum Law1
Reproducing Timely Subjects: How Abortion Law Calendars Social Reproduction1
Violence, Misrecognition, and Place: Legal Envelopment and Colonial Governmentality in the Upper Skeena River, British Columbia, 18881
Justice in English-Only1
Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?1
The Punitive State: The Making of Juvenile Delinquents in Portugal1
Book Review: White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking1
Coerced into Subsistence: Deprivation of Liberty in the EU Reception and Identification Centres in Greece1
The Form of Forms: Everyday Enablers of Access to Justice1
The Work of Acknowledgment: ‘Loud Fence’ as Community-Level Response to Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Testimony1
‘Sovereign Citizen Gets Roasted’: On the Nomophilia of Sovereign Citizens and Their Settler-Colonial Critics1
Book Review: Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers1
Book Review: The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans1
Book Review: Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law1
Governing Through Scalar Elasticity: An Analysis of the Accountability Gap in Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean1
Legal Struggles: A Social Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation and Legal Mobilisation1
Book Review: Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields by R COTTERRELL1
Legal Change and Legal Mobilisation: What Does Strategic Litigation Mean for Workers and Trade Unions?1
The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations: Organizational Biographies and the Sociology of Human Rights1
‘The Irregular’ and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India1
‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home1
Resilience-building in Adversarial Trials: Witnesses, Special Measures and the Principle of Orality1
Book Review: Transnational Law and State Transformation. The Case of Extractive Development in Mongolia0
Examining the Legal Legitimacy of Informal Economic Activities0
Within and Beyond Transitional Justice Shadows: Rallying Social Movements, Re-sculpting Agendas, Re-centring Historical Injustices0
‘Legal Marriage is Paperwork Day’: Independent Celebrant-Led Wedding Ceremonies as a Critical Institutional Response to Changing Social Norms0
Judicial Constructions of Harm in Australian Image-Based Sexual Abuse Case Law: A Feminist Discourse Analysis0
Learning Lessons from the Populist Defeats: From Negative to Positive Constitutionalism0
Spatial Governance of the Unhoused: On Social Death in the Contemporary City0
In What Sense Does Right-Wing Populism Pose a Democratic Challenge for the European Union?0
Book Review: Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts0
The Legitimation Strategies of “Progressive” Prosecutors0
Queer Conflicts, Concept Capture and Category Co-Option: The Importance of Context in the State Collection and Recording of Sex/Gender Data0
Book Review: A Jurisprudence of the Body0
Book Review: Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam: The World of Women-Centric Islam by ABBAS PANAKKAL AND NASR M ARIF0
Judges’ Understanding of Protests and the Cultural Underpinnings of Legal Repression: Examining Hong Kong Court Verdicts0
The Legal Profession in Battle: Cause Lawyers Versus State-Embedded Lawyers in Hong Kong's Democratization0
Pragmatic Punitiveness: The Institutionalization of Criminal Domestic Violence Protection Orders0
The Revolving Door of Im/Migration: Canadian Refugee Protection and the Production of Migrant Workers0
Removals of ‘Dangerous’ Mobile EU Citizens: Public Order and Security as a Police Paradigm0
Book Review: Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities0
Reconsidering the Asylum Lottery: Refugee Determination and the Structure of Luck0
Book Review: The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries0
The Courtroom as Four Landscapes: Reflections on Terrorism Trials Through Ethnographic Research0
Book Review: The King’s Peace. Law and Order in the British Empire0
Two Roads Converge: The Interchange Between the Mental Health and Legal Discourses in Sexual Assault Trials0
How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism: Reflections From the Human Rights City of York (UK)0
Abortion Anarchy? The Case for Abortion Decriminalization0
Deservingness on Trial: Neutralisation Techniques in Public Housing Jurisprudence0
The Working Culture of Legal Aid Lawyers: Developing a ‘Shared Orientation Model’0
Book Review: Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law0
Registering Time in Recognising Torturous Harm: Figuring the Single, Plural and Historical in Torture's Adjudication0
Book Review: Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law0
Book Review: Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene0
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’?0
Listening to Survivors in Sexual Harassment Law Reform0
Believing Asylum-Seeking Women: Doing Gender in Legal Narratives of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence0
Autocratic Legalism and Juridical Veto: Reflections on Politics and the Law in India0
Book Review: Time, Temporality and Legal Judgment by Tanzil Chowdhury0
Book Review: It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US0
Everyday Healthcare Regulation: British Newspapers and Complementary and Alternative Medicine0
“Yo sí te Creo”: Alcohol-facilitated sexual violence among young women in the Spanish night-time economy0
Book Review: Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples’ Engagement with Legal Regulation0
Analysis of the Colombian Constitutional Court's Transformative Approach to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence0
Who is the Addict-Offender? A Historical Ontology0
Children's Legal Geographies, and the “Make-Believe” of Property0
Becoming a Public Survivor of Sexual Violence in Australia0
Regulating Public Property: The Account of the Homeless0
Storytelling and Listening in Transitional Justice Processes: Addressing the Marginalisation of More-than-Human Worlds0
How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique0
Performing Legal and National Identities: Australian Citizenship Ceremonies and the Management of Cultural Diversity0
Book Review: Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility by STEWART FIELD and CYRUS TATA0
Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject0
Creating and Maintaining Structural Hindrances to Criminal Justice Control – A Policy Analysis on the Normalisation of Parental Violence as a Crime in Finland0
Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England0
Tokenizing and Articulating Protection of Women in Migration Law: Strategies of Exclusion in Contemporary Europe and the Nineteenth-Century USA0
Book Review: Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples’ Engagement With Legal Regulation by FLORA RENZ0
Book Review: Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies0
Book Review: Africa and the Backlash Against International Courts by Peter Brett and Line Engbo Gissel0
The Embodiment of Contempt: Ontario Provincial Prison Food0
Unionising Sex Workers and Other Feminists0
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology: Elements of Bourdieu's Sociology of Law and Dispute Transformation0
Silence and Voice in Oral Hearings: Spatial, Temporal, and Relational Conditions for Communication in Asylum and Compulsory Care Hearings0
Traditional Healing and Law in Contemporary Senegal: Legitimacies, Normativities and Practices0
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society0
Registering the Everyday: Documents, Bureaucracy, and the Socio-Legal0
Book Review: Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World0
The Politics of Policing Hate: Boundary Work, Social Inequalities, and Legitimacy0
Book Review: The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses by ALICE IEVINS0
Book Review: New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship0
Law, Culture and Decolonisation: The Perspectives of Aboriginal Elders on Family Violence in Australia0
Indigenous Anti/Deportation: Contesting Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Belonging in Canada and Australia0
Jurisdictional Relationships: Democracy and the Administrative State Through the Lens of Caring Society v Canada0
Dangerous Patterns: Joint Enterprise and the Culture of Criminal Law0
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi0
Lawyers as Constructive Ideologists of Corporate Capitalism: The Legal Framing of Software0
The Rule of Law in an Ethnocracy: India's Citizenship Amendment Act and the Will of the Hindu Ethnos0
Maintaining exceptionality: Interrogating gestational limits for abortion0
Law and Legitimacy in Administrative Justice Research0
Breaking Through the Legal Binary: Media Labelling of Dominic Ongwen as a Victim–Perpetrator0
Migrant Reception Centres and Coercive Social Control: Rule by Legal Uncertainty?0
Book Review: Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service0
Moving Beyond Formal Truth Practices and Forensic Truth in the Syrian Conflict: How Informal Truth Practices Contribute to Thicker Understandings of Truth0
Political Constitutionalism and Referendums: The Case of Brexit0
The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit: The lived experience of the European Union Settlement Scheme0
Health Inequalities: Law & the Pain of Others0
Book Review: Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial0
Coercion, Control and Criminal Responsibility: Exploring Professional Responses to Offending and Suicidality in the Context of Domestically Abusive Relationships0
Legislation as Disinformation: The Love Jihad Conspiracy Theory in Law and Lived Experience0
From European Roots to Settler Soil: Adapting Foucault’s Biopolitics to Canadian Settler Colonialism0
You Ain’t Woman Enough: Tracing the Policing of Intersexuality in Sports and the Clinic0
Worker Representation in the Regulation of Occupational Health: Explaining the Shift to Knowledge Activism0
Narrating Communist Repression in and Outside the Courtroom: The Case of Former Prison Commander Alexandru Vișinescu and its Resonance with (Societally) Available ‘Narrative Worlds’0
‘How Did You Get in There and Make the Law Work?’ Feminist Activism, Doctors and Abortion Law: The Occupation of an Hospital0
Forced Marriage in Australia: Building a Social Response with Frontline Workers0
Book Review: Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State0
The ‘Will of the People’: The Populist Challenge to Democracy in the Name of Popular Sovereignty0
Book Review: The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law0
Book Review: The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Hindutva and the Rule(s) of Law0
Loyalty, Liberty, and the Law: Analysing the Juxtaposition of Nation and Citizen in the Indian Sedition Law0
Book Review: Obligations: New Trajectories in Law0
Totalitarian Law and Communal Ghettoisation: An Arendtian Perspective0
Different but equal? Exploring potential catalysts of disparity in remand decision-making in the youth court0
‘They Just Let Us Rot to Death:’ Anti-Colonialism, Contestation, and Resistance to Reparations for Indian Residential School Abuse0
A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog: The Spatiotemporalities of a “Quasi-Public” Urban Squat0
Book Review: Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life by SARAH ROBINSON, ALEXANDRA BRISTOW AND OLIVIER RATLE0
The Ethics of Capital Punishment and a Law of Affective Enchantment0
Book Review: Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt0
Justice in Contention: The Dynamics of Legal Mobilisation in Caimanes’ Environmental Struggle0
Book Review: Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis0
Judicial Production of Racial Injustice in Taiwo v Olaigbe: Decolonising the Incomplete Story on Race and Contracting0
Documenting the Document: The Forensic Hospital Report and Its Knowledge Moves0
Diversity, Dissent and Representation: Lessons From The First Minority Judge in the Israeli Supreme Court0
Forensic Radiology and the Testimony of Shadows0
Book Review: Decolonising the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems0
Book Review: Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework0
Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood0
Contemporary Legal Pluralism, the Modern Metropole, and Immigrant Integration: Negotiating the Law and Legal Institutions in Immigrant Contexts0
Book Review: Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law. A History0
Insult, Charisma, and Legitimacy: Turkey's Transition to Personalist Rule0
Deconstructing ‘Rough Sex’ in a New Zealand Murder Trial: Beyond the Modern Mythology of Everyday Kink0
Revisiting Polish Abortion Law: Doctors and Institutions in a Restrictive Regime0
Shifting Accounts of Justice: The Legalisation and Politicisation of International Criminal Justice0
Pressing Evidence: Activating Khmer Rouge Archives0
Book Review: Liability for Transboundary Pollution at the Intersection of Public and Private International Law (Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law)0
Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation: The Case of Israel/Palestine0
Following the Money: Understanding Forum Shopping and the ‘Justice Marketplace’ in Sierra Leone0
Book Review: Speaking Out: Feminism, rape and narrative politics0
Zooming In: Courtrooms and Defendants’ Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Law and Transitions to Capitalism0
Racist Victimization, Legal Estrangement and Resentful Reliance on the Police in Sweden0
A Gendered EU Settlement Scheme: Intersectional Oppression of Immigrant Women in a Post-Brexit Britain0
Book Review: Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology) by JEFFERSON, A.M. AND JEFFRIES, S.0
Book Review: Criminal Justice in Austerity – Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice by JAMES THORNTON0
Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: Replicating and Augmenting Harm, Victimhood and Blame0
Mournful Mothers and Damaged Damsels: Are We Really Listening to Women During Parliamentary Human Rights Scrutiny?0
Registering Cosmetics? The Constitution of Legal Form and Injurious Substance in Canada (1945–1946)0
Migrant Labor Supply Chains: Architectures of Mobile Assemblages0
Erratum to Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding0
Book Review: Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past0
Book Review: The Colonial Politics of Hope: Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations0
Confronting Populism0
Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding0
Book Review: The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture0
‘You Can Sue for Anything’: Student Rights to Participate in School Disciplinary Procedures and Legal Socialisation0
Book Review: Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives0
Book Review: Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation, and their Interactions0
From Love to Justice: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State Violence0
Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK: Exploring Judicial Responses0
Book Review: Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere0
Feminism and Counter-Trafficking: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Contemporary Feminism in Portugal0
Book Review: Film and Constitutional Controversy: Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of “One Country, Two Systems”0
Policing Commercial Sex in 1970s France: Regulating the Racialized Sexual Order0
Ethnography in Motion, or Walking With WG Sebald0
Book Review: Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood0
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