SOCILEXIA: Journal of Social Sciences and Legal Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal primarily devoted to research in the Social Sciences. The journal provides a scholarly platform for examining social structures, social behaviour, communities, institutions, governance, welfare, public and social policy, inequality, and processes of social change.

The journal's disciplinary orientation is particularly aligned with the fields of Social Welfare and Government Studies, while also accommodating related perspectives from sociology, social psychology, political science, public policy, community studies, development studies, criminology, and other areas of the social sciences.

SOCILEXIA particularly welcomes research in the following areas:

1. Social Welfare and Social Policy
   Social welfare systems, social services, poverty and vulnerability, social protection, social inclusion, social intervention, community welfare, disability, ageing, children and families, and the development and evaluation of social policies.
2. Government, Governance, and Public Institutions
   Government institutions, governance, public accountability, decentralisation, local government, public participation, bureaucracy, institutional performance, public service delivery, and relations between governments and communities.
3. Society, Community, and Social Change
   Social structures, community dynamics, social relationships, social transformation, urban and rural communities, demographic change, collective behaviour, social cohesion, and changing patterns of social life.
4. Social Inequality, Marginality, and Inclusion
   Poverty, social exclusion, inequality, vulnerable populations, discrimination, identity, gender, youth, social mobility, and processes of inclusion and marginalisation.
5. Social Behaviour and Social Psychology
   Social interaction, group behaviour, social identity, attitudes, interpersonal relations, well-being, adaptation, resilience, social support, and behavioural responses to changing social environments.
6. Crime, Victimisation, and Social Harm
   Crime and deviance as social phenomena, victimisation, violence, community safety, social harm, fear of crime, social responses to crime, and the social conditions associated with offending and victimisation.
7. Politics, Citizenship, and Democratic Society
   Political participation, electoral behaviour, citizenship, political attitudes, representation, civil society, social movements, political communication, and relations between citizens and public institutions.
8. Digital Society and Contemporary Social Transformation
   Digital communities, social media, cyberbullying, online behaviour, digital inequality, technology and social relations, digital culture, and the social consequences of technological transformation.
9. Community Development and Social Empowerment
   Community participation, empowerment, local development, social innovation, community resilience, participatory development, and community-based approaches to contemporary social problems.
10. Comparative and Global Social Issues
    Migration, globalisation, transnational communities, social development, international social problems, comparative social policy, and cross-national studies of social institutions and social change.

Scope Boundary

SOCILEXIA is a Social Sciences journal and does not publish Legal Science as an independent field of inquiry.

The journal does not accept manuscripts whose primary purpose is to interpret legal norms, examine the validity or consistency of legislation, analyse judicial decisions, construct legal doctrines, compare legal rules, or propose normative legal reform. This includes purely doctrinal, normative-juridical, statutory, and case-law research in which law constitutes the principal object of analysis.

Legal rules, regulations, rights, and public institutions may appear in SOCILEXIA only when they constitute the social or institutional context of a social-scientific research problem. In such cases, the manuscript must primarily employ theories, concepts, questions, methods, and analytical frameworks derived from the Social Sciences.

Accordingly, the principal criterion for publication in SOCILEXIA is that the manuscript makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of social phenomena, social relations, social institutions, social welfare, governance, social behaviour, or social change, rather than to the interpretation or development of law.