About SACJ
The Society for Advancement of Criminal Justice (SACJ) is a premier academic body under the Student Juridical Association (SJA) at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata. Having been founded in the year 2004 by Professor Dr. Kavita Singh, a professor of Law at NUJS for the subjects of Criminal Laws, Criminology, Military Laws, Family Laws etc., the SACJ focuses on contemporary issues concerning Criminal Law and Justice.
About the Blog
We at the Society for Advancement of Criminal Justice (SACJ), at the National University of Juridical Sciences appreciate the importance of academic discourse in the evolution of criminal law. In order to foster a conductive environment to promote constant and holistic research in the area of criminal law, criminal justice and its
allied disciplines, we accept submissions on rolling basis. Through our publications, we seek to promote discourse
about the various nuances and developments in the field Criminal Law and its related disciplines . With the above objectives in mind, we welcome all submissions from students, academicians, law practitioners and every other criminal law enthusiast. The scope of submissions is not restricted and we intend to publish entries related to any aspect of both domestic and international criminal law, the criminal justice system and the allied disciplines of the subject like Criminology, Victimology, Forensic Science, Juvenile Justice etc.
Conditions for Publications:
1.All submissions to the NUJS Society for Advancement of Criminal Justice should be the original work of the author(s). Any form of plagiarism will result in automatic disqualification. As a precondition for submission, the society shall have the right to submit the submitted content to any anti-plagiarism software.
2.All submissions shall be accepted for publications with the assumption that they do not infringe upon copyrights and any other rights held by any person. The author(s) will hold the sole responsibility for any sort of breach in this aspect. The website or the Society will not be liable and responsible for the same.
3.The submitted content should not contain any obscene, offensive, downright insulting, defamatory or racially prejudiced material. Any submission which is deemed to be offensive or attacks any particular caste, creed, religion, race or sex shall be rejected for publication.
4.Once the submitted content is accepted for publication, the copyright shall immediately transfer to the website and the Society for Advancement of Criminal Justice. The author(s) grant an irrevocable, transferable, non-exclusive and royalty free license to the NUJS Society for Advancement of Criminal Justice to store, display, reproduce, publish,
distribute and promote their submissions in the website, retrieval systems, media handles including but not limited to social media handles. Once any piece/ article is submitted to the society but is under review, the author shall
not submit the same anywhere else ,including any other page, forum, website and institution. However, in case of the rejection of the submitted piece, the author shall be free to submit and publish the content elsewhere.
Content Guidelines:
Blogs must ordinarily be confided to 2000 words (excluding citations). Blogs shall aim to provide an analysis, critique, opinion about a particular issue, crime or criminal law update or even a case ruling . However, the author is expected to keep in mind that an academic blog submission is strictly different from a newspaper editorial. No abstract is required in case of submission under this category.
Formatting Guidelines
1.The submission must be word – processed and in Times New Roman. Submissions in any other form including Pdf shall not be accepted.
2.Proper Citations must be done. Citations can only be in the form of footnotes. Only references hyperlinks or
endnote citation shall not be accepted.
3.The author may follow any form of Uniform Identifiable Citation Style. However, the citation standard and style followed must remain uniform throughout the submission made. We strongly suggest to use BlueBook (20th Edition) or NUJS Law Review Citation Standard.
4.The main text should be in font size 12 and endnotes in font size 10.
5.Alignment must be justified and line spacing must be set at 1.5.
6.One line gap must be maintained between headings and paragraphs. All paragraphs must begin with a One-Inch indent.
Submission Guidelines
1. Interested authors are requested to send their submissions in MS Word Attachments in .doc/.docx format to
2.Co-authorship is permitted for every category of submission. However, number of Co- Authors shall not exceed to more than Two (2) .
3.All submissions must be accompanied with a covering letter containing the name of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s), academic qualifications including the degrees completed, title and category of submissions and email address of all the co-authors.
4.The body of the submission must contain no identification of the author(s) including the institutional affiliation. Every detail shall be provided in the covering letter only.
5.All Submissions shall be reviewed on a rolling basis .
Contact
The authors are expected to communicate on [email protected]with respect to any query regarding the submission made/ planning to be made. In case of any grievance, kindly contact us at [email protected]
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