Statement by the outgoing editorial team
| Published date | 01 November 2010 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1748895810382717 |
| Author | |
| Date | 01 November 2010 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Statement by the outgoing
editorial team
This is the final issue of the four-year tenure of the current Editorial Team at Cardiff
University. Over the past four years, we feel that the journal has widened further its intel-
lectual scope whilst holding on to the key strengths established by the founding editors.
In particular, the increased deployment of high quality and coherently themed special
issues on a twice-yearly basis has given the journal a distinct cutting-edge reputation in
criminology with regard to theoretical and methodological developments, as well as the
research and policy interface in contemporary criminology. The current issue is a par-
ticularly strong example of this, including articles from internationally recognised crimi-
nologists discussing the highly influential work of Loïc Wacquant. We plan to include a
response from Professor Wacquant in the next issue. We are also pleased with the devel-
opment of the ‘debate and dialogue’ feature, contributions to which have again led to
very positive feedback from our readership and contributors. This development repre-
sents success in meeting one of our original ambitions when we took over the editorship,
namely to encourage submissions other than full research articles. The journal has also
been successful in encouraging submissions from low-income and developing countries
as well as the further internationalisation of our submissions, particularly from North
America, the Southern Hemisphere and Europe. We on the Editorial Team, ably sup-
ported by the Sage editorial team, are also proud of our achievement in the journal being
recognised as high impact by the Thomson-Reuters citation system. We on the Cardiff
team will continue to act as editors of CCJ until the end of 2010, with the consequence
that the new editorial team from 2011 will ‘inherit’ copy for some of the first issues of
2011. This is in line with the previous period of handover and transition that occurred in
2006 with the then outgoing editors.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to all those
involved with the journal, but in particular to our contributors and reviewers. We are sure
that the journal will go from strength to strength under the expert guidance of its new
Editorial Team at Leeds University.
The Editorial Team
Cardiff University
Criminology & Criminal Justice
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