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10 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health 3 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/cbmh10 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 10, 3-4 2000 © Whurr Publishers Ltd CBMH greets 2000 The beginning of the new century sees Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health into its tenth volume. We want to wish all our readers and our writers a happy and fruitful New Year. It would probably have been impossible to have had a journal with the interests of this one in the year 1900. Certainly, the knowl- edge of the relationship between criminal behaviour and mental health and of the management of mentally disordered offenders was rudimentary at that time. Our knowledge and understanding has come a very long way since then but even so it is quite clear that knowledge, skill, compassion and understand- ing are still very limited in this field. Let us hope we can look forward in the future to a rate of progress which is equal to that of the twentieth century. In the United Kingdom the twentieth century has seen the birth of both forensic psychiatry and criminology. We now also have sub-specialities of forensic psy- chology and forensic nursing. Academic departments in both criminology and forensic psychiatry are beginning to develop in a variety of major universities. This journal hopes to contribute in a small way to that important and exciting academic development. This is also a good moment to look back to our first nine years. We believe that the quality of contributions to the journal has risen during that period; certainly the number of papers submitted has risen and now we have waiting lists for publication for both papers and book reviews. This is not an ideal situ- ation but as readership rises we are hoping that we will be able to have more space to satisfy these needs. Part of the reason for the rise in the quality of the papers has been the quality, conscientiousness and good nature of our referees. We are fortunate indeed that so many talented people have given so freely of their time, with- out hope for any reward save the love of the discipline, and to enhance the standards of the journal. We have always insisted on an anonymous refereeing system, as do most peer-reviewed journals and we are not able to publish with any frequency, in order to maintain that confidentiality, the names of the peo- ple who have helped the journal and particularly the authors. We want to take this opportunity therefore to list all those who have been so generous and 3

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