Focus and Scope

Scope and Topics

JPOL invites original empirical research, legal analyses, policy evaluations, and theoretical frameworks across the following core domains:

• Public Security & Administrative Law: Legal regulation of public spaces, police power, emergency powers, national security legislation, and administrative enforcement.

• Criminology, Policing & Law Enforcement: Modern policing strategies, community safety, crime prevention, intelligence-led governance, and police accountability.

• Cybersecurity, Surveillance & Digital Order: Legal frameworks for cybercrime, state surveillance, data privacy, algorithm-driven law enforcement, and digital civil liberties.

• Public Crisis Management & Emergency Law: Legal resilience during national emergencies, public health crises, disaster management, and civil unrest governance.

• Human Rights & Civil Liberties in State Governance: Procedural justice, counter-terrorism compliance, protection of peaceful assembly, and judicial oversight of executive power.