Social & Legal Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Social & Legal Studies is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
Book Review: Torture as State Crime: A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer12
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
Civil Legal Services and Survivor-Defined Justice: A Qualitative Study with US Civil Legal Attorneys for Sexual Assault Survivors11
Book Review: Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law10
Fast Refugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control10
Fake News in Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections: A Systems Theory Approach to Judicial and Legal Responses10
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
Living with a Sense of a Right to Hope6
Problematising the ‘Man Problem’ in the Domestic Abuse Act: Discursive Co-option and The (In)Visibility of Gender6
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
‘I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar!’: #March4Justice and the Desire for Law to Listen4
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
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
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
‘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
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
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: 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
Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?1
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
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
Governing Through Scalar Elasticity: An Analysis of the Accountability Gap in Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean1
‘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
Legal Struggles: A Social Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation and Legal Mobilisation1
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