Editorial Introduction
| DOI | 10.1177/1748895816661607 |
| Published date | 01 September 2016 |
| Date | 01 September 2016 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial Introduction |
Criminology & Criminal Justice
2016, Vol. 16(4) 389 –390
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Editorial Introduction
This is the first issue of our term as Criminology and Criminal Justice’s new editorial
team – all three co-Editors-in-Chief and our wider Editorial board are members of the
Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), which is itself a collaboration
between four Scottish Universities (the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and
Strathclyde). We are privileged to be able to take over following the outstanding efforts
of the outgoing Editorial Team at the University of Leeds and have inherited a journal in
very good shape indeed.
In a relatively short period of time, Criminology and Criminal Justice has become a
distinguished journal with an international reputation for high quality submissions,
timely turn-around for reviews and a commitment to rigour, originality and interdiscipli-
narity. Since its inception in 2000 (and first issue, published in 2001), the journal has
played a key part in both stimulating and critically engaging in criminal justice debates
in the UK and beyond.
Criminology and Criminal Justice is the official journal of the British Society of
Criminology, a professional body that has been home to some of those producing the
most important, critical and innovative scholarship in the discipline. British criminology
has never been just British however, and even when analysing criminal justice develop-
ments within the UK, seeks to be part of and engage a global terrain.
We look forward to continue building Criminology and Criminal Justice with our
own vision of a criminological journal that speaks to the critical crime and justice issues
of our times through publishing research that is path-breaking, visionary and useful. Our
ethos is to ensure a ‘peer review to publication’ process that fosters a climate of support
and collegiality, equality and diversity. At the same time, we are committed to ensuring
that the journal showcases the best research from across the many disciplines which have
informed criminological thinking – sociology, law, social policy, anthropology, politics,
history cultural and media studies and more. Our objectives are to further develop growth
in the number of manuscript submissions, stimulate and support submissions from under-
represented regions of the world, and reflect and participate in shaping the most exciting
advances of the discipline by promoting new ideas and emerging scholarship. Last, but
by no means least, we are committed to involving a range of authors and readers includ-
ing academics, students, practitioners and policy makers so that we can demonstrate the
importance of criminological scholarship to wider society.
The journal has a new International Advisory Board composed of members with a
diverse range of substantive research interests, and theoretical and methodological
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