Sriwijaya Crimen and Legal Studies (SCLS) welcomes original scholarly manuscripts that contribute to the development of legal knowledge, criminal law scholarship, criminology, and related interdisciplinary fields. Submissions must fall within the journal's aims and scope, demonstrate academic rigor, and comply with the journal's publication ethics and submission guidelines.
SCLS considers the following types of manuscripts for publication.
Original Research Articles present original findings derived from legal research, empirical investigation, comparative legal analysis, or interdisciplinary studies relevant to the journal's scope.
Submissions may employ normative legal research, socio-legal research, empirical methods, comparative approaches, or other appropriate methodologies. Manuscripts must clearly identify the research problem, explain the methodology, present a systematic analysis, and demonstrate an original contribution to existing scholarship.
Review Articles provide a critical and systematic examination of existing literature, legal doctrines, regulatory developments, judicial decisions, or emerging issues within the journal's scope.
These manuscripts should offer a coherent synthesis of relevant scholarship, identify significant debates or research gaps, and provide meaningful insights for future research or legal development. A review article must go beyond a descriptive summary of previously published works.
Case Law Analysis manuscripts critically examine judicial decisions, including judgments of national or international courts and other relevant adjudicative bodies.
Submissions should identify significant legal issues, analyze judicial reasoning and the application of legal principles, and evaluate the implications of the decision for legal doctrine, law enforcement, human rights, or legal policy. Authors must provide accurate references to the decisions and relevant legal authorities.
Comparative Legal Studies examine legal rules, institutions, judicial practices, or legal policies across two or more jurisdictions.
Manuscripts should establish a clear comparative framework, explain the relevance of the selected jurisdictions, and identify similarities, differences, and their legal or practical implications. Merely describing separate national legal systems without substantive comparison will generally be insufficient.
Conceptual and Theoretical Articles develop, critically evaluate, or apply legal concepts, theories, and analytical frameworks relevant to the journal's scope.
Submissions should demonstrate conceptual clarity, rigorous argumentation, and a meaningful contribution to legal theory, criminal justice scholarship, criminology, or related fields. The analysis must be supported by appropriate scholarly literature and legal sources.
Policy and Legislative Analysis manuscripts critically examine legislation, regulatory frameworks, criminal justice policies, law reform proposals, and institutional approaches to legal problems.
Authors should identify the relevant legal or policy issue, evaluate the strengths and limitations of the existing framework, and provide well-supported conclusions or recommendations. Submissions should demonstrate clear relevance to legal development and public policy.
All manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere, except where an applicable journal policy expressly provides otherwise. Manuscripts must comply with SCLS's author guidelines, citation requirements, ethical standards, and applicable research integrity requirements.
Each submission will undergo an initial editorial assessment to determine its relevance to the journal's aims and scope, originality, academic quality, and compliance with submission requirements. Manuscripts considered suitable may be sent for peer review in accordance with the journal's editorial procedures.
Submission under any manuscript category does not guarantee acceptance. Final publication decisions rest with the editorial team based on scholarly merit, peer-review outcomes where applicable, and the journal's publication standards.
