Editorial
| Published date | 01 June 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231186191 |
| Author | Asher Flynn,Rebecca Wickes |
| Date | 01 June 2023 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
Asher Flynn
Monash University, Australia
Rebecca Wickes
Griffith University, Australia
Welcome to the first issue under our editorial tenure. It is a great honour and privilege to hold
the position as the new Editors of the flagship journal of the Australian and New Zealand
Society of Criminology. We come into the role supported by our Managing Editor, Rebecca
Powell, in addition to four Associate Editors and an Editorial Board with membership from
across the globe, offering diverse expertise.
It is customary that new editors provide a pronouncement of their vision in the editorial of
their first issue. To prepare for this, we reviewed the introductory editorials published in the
journal since 1968, to get a better understanding of the priorities of our predecessors. This his-
torical sojourn made us deeply appreciative of the contributions of past editors, who established
and internationalised the journal. Whatever successes we have as editors in the next three years
will be a function of the journal’s strong foundation.
Reflecting on the evolution of the journal since its very first issue, we observed its transform-
ation from an early focus on what predicts an individual’s involvement in the criminal justice
system, analyses of criminal justice processes and critical reflections on Australian law reforms
(O’Connor, 1980), to the coverage of a broad range of topics from countries in the Global North
and the Global South (Manning et al., 2014).
The journal’sembrace of an internationally focused,“eclectic”criminology began in theearly
1990s, during the time of Professor Ross Homel’s editorial tenure (Homel, 1992, p. 194). In his
opening editorial, Homel (1992) lamented the “low visibility”of the journal internationally and
called for greater promotion to countries beyond Australia and New Zealand. Each editor who
followed expressed a commitment to this change, which has undoubtedly led to the current
focus and global readership of the journal.
In crafting our vision, we also turned to the work of scholars who have either heralded the
death of criminology or proclaimed its potential and scope. We considered texts from Vold
(1966), Cohen (1998), and the recent work of Braithwaite (2022). We engaged with the role
that criminology has played, and continues to play, in the maintenance of colonising processes
and the oppression and stigmatisation of Indigenous and First Nations peoples (Cunneen &
Corresponding author:
Asher Flynn, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.
Email: asher.flynn@monash.edu
Journal of Criminology
2023, Vol. 56(2-3) 147–149
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