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25 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc25 and id is 1 raw text is: J Quant Criminol (2009) 25:1 2 DOI 10.1007/s10940-009-9063-0 I I I I ) k I I Editorial Introduction James P. Lynch - Alex R. Piquero Published online: 18 February 2009 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 It is an honor for us to be chosen as co-editors of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. When Jamie Fox began the Journal it was innovative but served a very distinct reader- ship-the small community of criminologists with a quantitative bent. This community has grown and, as a result, the prominence of the Journal has increased and stands among the most pre-eminent in criminology/criminal justice. The success of the Journal, however, is due not only to changes in the discipline but also to the careful stewardship of subsequent editors John Laub, Michael Maltz and David McDowall. They understood that the success of the Journal depended upon performing the mundane tasks of the review process promptly as well as adapting to broader changes in the discipline. They also understood the importance of working closely with the publisher to produce a quality product. We aspire to continue this tradition. The mission of the Journal has evolved. Initially it was seen as an outlet for quanti- tatively oriented work in criminology that, at the time, could not find a suitable publication outlet. Now the amount and quality of quantitatively oriented criminology has increased and is broadly accepted in all of the discipline's journals. The danger in this evolution is that JQC may be regarded as only appropriate for even more esoteric methodological and statistical papers. This is not the case. JQC will retain its mission of publishing high quality, quantitatively-oriented criminology. This includes any paper of theoretical rele- vance to the field of criminology and criminal justice that employs quantitative methodology. The Journal will also be home to purely methodological pieces as long as the methodological issue being addressed can be shown to be relevant to work in crimi- nology and criminal justice. This can include papers on research design, sampling, statistics, and measurement. We are particularly interested in having JQC play a role in cross fertilization between criminology and other disciplines with more advanced quantitative methodologies. This is J. P. Lynch (E) John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA e-mail: jlynch@jjay.cuny.edu A. R. Piquero University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA e-mail: apiquero@crim.umd.edu ' Springer

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