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25 Crim. Just. Stud. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/cjscj25 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Justice Studies                                          Routle  e
Vol. 25, No. 1, March 2012, 1-2                                  Taylor& ranis Grup
EDITORIAL
From the Editor's desk
Welcome to Volume 25, No. 1 for the New Year 2012. As you may note we have a
new Associate Editor LiYing Li who is replacing George Higgins who has been
one of our Associate Editors 'Forever'. George has accepted a position as an Editor
for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and though he will be missed, we
wish him the best in his new position. He brings a great deal of knowledge and
expertise to this position and we know he will thrive. LiYing Li is both the Chair
and Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Department of Criminal
Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado. She
has already reviewed articles and will be an asset to this journal. We welcome her.
Our first article by Petter Gottschalk, Norwegian School of Management,
Nydalsveien, Oslo, Norway and Morten Espen Orn from the Hordaland Police Dis-
trict in Bergen, Norway discusses 'Crime Mapping in Police Value Shops: the
Pocket Man Case of Child Sex Abuse'. The authors point out that it took the Nor-
wegian police 32 years to capture the Pocket Man. He was responsible for more
than 100 sexual-abuse cases over that same period of time. Their article presents a
study of police investigations of abuse. Each value shop activity had serious defi-
ciencies in the investigations of pocket man case incidents, with the first step being
the most critical.
The next article, 'Changing Minds: The Effect of Course and Teaching
Approach on Attitudes Toward the Legal System' by Evelyn M. Maeder of Carle-
ton University and Cindy E. Laub from the United States Air Force Academy.
These authors talk about prior research which examined the influence of courses on
attitude change, while some has established that psychology and law courses may
increase cynicism toward the legal system. This current research sought to deter-
mine the relationships among majors of study, political orientation, and attitudes
toward the legal system. What is demonstrated by their results is that the majors of
study and political orientation were related to legal attitudes.
'Incarceration or Community Placement: Examining the Sentences of Cybercri-
minals', by Catherine D. Marcum, George E. Higgins and Richard Tewksbury look
toward filling in the gap of our understanding of correlate as to whether a cybercri-
me conviction leads to prison or community corrections. They point out that
available legal responses to cybercrimes are no different than those available for
other types of felony offenses.
Brian F. Kingshott in his manuscript, 'Violence in Educational Establishments:
Cause, Effect and Response', writes about how crisis situations in educational
establishments may emerge along a continuum from natural disasters to man-made
threats such as school shootings, hostage taking and terrorism threats. There appears
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