Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal in the social sciences and humanities. It publishes original research that examines crime, culture, power, institutions, inequality, identity, and social change through relational, critical, comparative, and context-sensitive perspectives.

The journal is organized around three interconnected pillars: Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics. Manuscripts may address one pillar independently or examine relationships across two or more pillars.

Crime

This pillar covers crime, violence, victimization, punishment, and social control as socially situated phenomena. Its principal areas include:

• criminology, crime, and criminal behaviour;
• victimology, victimization, vulnerability, fear of crime, trauma, stigma, and recovery;
• penology, punishment, surveillance, criminal justice, and social control;
• organized, political, corporate, transnational, environmental, rural, urban, and digital crime;
• youth offending, gender-based violence, domestic violence, and community conflict;
• structural and institutional violence, social harm, crime prevention, and community responses.

Culture

This pillar examines the production, negotiation, and transformation of meaning, identity, morality, knowledge, and social boundaries. Its principal areas include:

• cultural practices, traditions, rituals, local knowledge, and popular culture;
• ethnicity, race, nationality, citizenship, migration, and diasporic identity;
• religion, morality, honour, shame, dignity, and normative change;
• gender, sexuality, embodiment, class, status, and generational identity;
• deviance, labelling, stigma, stereotyping, moral panic, and contested belonging;
• media, communication, representation, collective memory, and cultural transformation.

Social Dynamics

This pillar examines how social relations and institutions are organized and transformed by power, inequality, collective action, technological development, mobility, and environmental change. Its principal areas include:

• power, authority, legitimacy, governance, and citizenship;
• community, family, youth, organizations, and institutional life;
• social movements, resistance, political participation, and collective action;
• poverty, precarity, marginalization, discrimination, and intersectional inequality;
• work, welfare, public services, social justice, inclusion, and empowerment;
• media, technology, digital society, migration, spatial change, disaster, and environmental transformation.

Interdisciplinary Orientation

The journal welcomes contributions from criminology, sociology, anthropology, criminal justice studies, political science, public policy, communication, cultural studies, history, religious studies, social psychology, education, social work, human geography, development studies, gender studies, environmental humanities, and related fields.

A manuscript does not need to address crime to fall within the journal’s scope. Research centred on culture or social dynamics is equally relevant when it offers a substantive analysis of social relations, identity, power, institutions, inequality, or social change.