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Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture:
www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/index.html
has full text articles of most recent publications.

Crime culture:
www.crimeculture.com
aims to explore different critical approaches to the study of crime literature/film, and to be as entertaining and wide-ranging as possible.

Journal for Crime, Conflict and Media Culture:
www.jc2m.co.uk
a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the critical nexus of media culture, criminal justice and conflict.

Crimewatch:
www.bbc.co.uk/crime
definitive crime site from the BBC.

The Working Group on Law and Culture (formerly called the Working Group on Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law):
www.ssrc.org/programs/law_culture
has studied how the United States and other liberal democracies accommodate cultural practices that depart from social norms codified within their legal systems, such as child marriage, corporal punishment, and female circumcision.

Perspectives on Law & Contemporary Culture (PLCC):
www.ku.edu/~plcc
is a non-credit student organization at the University of Kansas School of Law. An online publication that explores the interaction of law and culture in today's society, PLCC endeavors to provide timely information and commentary related to some of the most important legal questions facing society while also taking time to highlight some of the less important but more entertaining interactions between law and culture.