https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/jlrm <p>The Journal of Legal Research Methodology is an international peer-reviewed open access journal devoted to the dissemination of ideas relating to legal research methods and methodology.</p> <p>ISSN: 2752-3403</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/JofLMethod1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Follow us on Twitter for the latest news and developments.</a></p> Northumbria University Library en-US Journal of Legal Research Methodology 2752-3403 <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</p><ol start="1"><li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li><li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.<br /> </li><li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li></ol> https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/jlrm/article/view/1547 <p>Multi-jurisdictional legal research is an important area of study for understanding the United States’s (U.S.) legal landscape, including the impact of this landscape on social issues (e.g., overdose response, violent victimization). However, underexplored within the extant literature is unified and systematic guidance on conducting such research. Accordingly, the goal of the current paper is to construct a guide and call to action on bringing policy surveillance methods into focus. First, a systematized review of the extant empirical literature on multi-jurisdictional domestic violence policy surveillance is employed by inputting a search phrase—(<em>statut*</em><em> OR legisl* OR law* OR “policy” OR “policies”) AND “content analysis” AND “United States” AND (violen* OR abus*)—</em>into three scholarly databases: Criminal Justice Abstracts, Academic Search Premier, and Applied Social Sciences Index &amp; Abstracts. Second, a systematized review of the extant literature on policy surveillance methodology more broadly is employed by inputting a search phrase—“<em>policy surveillance”—</em>into the scholarly database, Web of Science. After inclusion/exclusion and data abstraction processes, as well as with the information gained from the systematized reviews more broadly, the current work (a) constructs a series of common methodological practices in policy surveillance and (b) develops a call-to-action on necessary future steps to ensure wide usage of unified policy surveillance guidance. Overall, the importance of the current work is embodied in an empirically-informed set of options for searching, analysis, and reporting of multi-jurisdictional policy surveillance research.</p> Julio Montanez Copyright (c) 2024 Julio Montanez http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-07-05 2024-07-05 4 1