Letter from the new editors

Published date01 January 2005
DOI10.1177/1462474505048128
Date01 January 2005
AuthorJonathan Simon,Malcolm M. Feeley
Subject MatterArticles
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1462-4745; Vol 7(1): 5
DOI: 10.1177/1462474505048128
PUNISHMENT
& SOCIETY
Letter from the new
editors

MALCOLM M. FEELEY AND JONATHAN SIMON
University of California, Berkeley, USA
With this issue, we assume the editorship of Punishment & Society. We realize that we
have big shoes to fill. Founding editor, David Garland, did the impossible by estab-
lishing a journal that with its very first volume defined an emerging body of scholar-
ship and became its most distinguished and authoritative forum. His successor Richard
Sparks continued that tradition while reaching out to an increasingly diverse set of
authors and topics. Under this editorial leadership, combined with strong support from
SAGE, the journal has continued to succeed and grow by any measure that one might
imagine. Most recently it was selected for inclusion in the prestigious social science
citation index.
We accept the challenge to build on this success. We are mindful that the journal
moves from Keele to Berkeley at a time when American political hegemony...

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