Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing research across the social sciences and humanities. The journal provides an inclusive scholarly platform for examining societies, cultures, institutions, communities, human behavior, public life, economic relations, language, and processes of social transformation across local, national, regional, and global contexts.
Punggawa Social Inquiry welcomes contributions across three interconnected pillars: Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics. Crime includes, but is not limited to, criminology, violence, victimization, social harm, criminal justice, punishment, deviance, security, conflict, and social control. Culture encompasses meaning, identity, religion, morality, representation, memory, language, discourse, communication, knowledge, heritage, everyday life, cultural production, and social practices. Social Dynamics provides the journal's broadest domain, covering governance, politics, public policy, communities, social institutions, education, communication, economics, development, political economy, labor, markets, economic inequality, gender, welfare, digital society, migration and mobility, demographic change, environmental transformation, and other processes shaping contemporary societies.
Published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, Punggawa Social Inquiry is committed to maintaining high editorial standards, a transparent peer-review process, and open-access principles to support the wide dissemination of social-scientific and humanistic knowledge.
Current Issue
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026 : July - September
Published: 2026-08-09
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Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal advances social-scientific and humanistic inquiry into crime, culture, power, institutions, and social change by connecting lived experience with broader systems of meaning, inequality, authority, identity, technology, environment, and collective practices.
The journal is grounded in a relational approach to social inquiry. Social phenomena are examined through relationships among individuals, families, communities, institutions, technologies, environments, and wider social structures. Its intellectual scope is organized around three interconnected pillars: Crime, encompassing criminology, violence, victimization, social harm, criminal justice, punishment, and social control; Culture, covering meaning, identity, morality, religion, deviance, representation, memory, knowledge, and social practices; and Social Dynamics, addressing power, inequality, governance, community, social institutions, economic relations, digital society, mobility, and environmental transformation.
Through its relational and interdisciplinary orientation, Punggawa Social Inquiry seeks to strengthen dialogue across disciplines while maintaining a distinctive focus on the conditions through which crime, culture, and social dynamics are produced, experienced, contested, and transformed. Punggawa Social Inquiry is published quarterly, with issues released in March, June, September, and December.
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