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2 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (1986)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc2 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1986 From the Editor This issue begins the second year in print for the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. As editor, I am gratified as much by the contents of the first volume of issues as I am by the progress and growth of the journal. The first volume well represents the journal's scope. Several papers have made important methodological advances for criminological research, while others have utilized data in contributing substantively and, I might add, significantly. In terms of technical level, certain of the articles were quite sophisticated quantitatively, while others used fairly routine methods yet in a skillful way. This underscores an important point. The quantitative orientation pre- scribed by the journal's title does not mean that esoteric techniques are required of its articles, although such papers certainly do have a home here. Simply, JQC serves an empirical, data-oriented tradition in this discipline, dating back to the pioneering work of Adolphe Quetelet in the early nineteenth century. In more specific terms, the journal imposes no restrictions on the level of technical sophistication-at either end of the spectrum. The editorial policy insists only that papers be empirical, methodological, or mathematical and that they be of interest to the quantitative research community in the field of criminology. The first year of any new journal, I have been told, is critical to its success. I am pleased to report, therefore, that JQC emerges from its first year quite healthy. Subscriptions are growing steadily; submissions are coming in regularly; the production work at Plenum has been outstanding; and, most important, the published papers have been excellent. I do feel that we have turned a corner toward stability. The success of the first year owes largely to the assistance of the Editorial Board and all of those I have called upon for reviews. In addition, my Associate Editors, William J. Bowers and Paul E. Tracy, have been of great help since the start. Finally, I have added John H. Laub as an Associate Editor for the journal. Given his substantive breadth, Professor Laub has 1 0748-4518/86/0300-0001$05.00/0 © 1986 Plenum Publishing Corporation

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