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34 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (1997)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd34 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION James 0. Finckenauer Although I did not think much about it at the time, when I joined the Journal ofResearch in Crime and Delinquency (JRCD) in the Spring of 1995 for a transition year as editor-elect, I was actually inheriting a grand (with a small g) tradition. There is, of course, the link between JRCD and the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice through the person of Don Gottfredson, who founded both. It was very meaningful to me that Don had once headed the journal I was now going to head. Then there are my distinguished immediate predecessors as editors. First, Vince O'Leary, who was also a founder of JRCD. Vince built and maintained the high quality of the journal for many years. When it came to Rutgers, Jeff Fagan assumed the responsi- bility for filling Vince's very large shoes. Jeff was successful in not only sustaining the journal's quality, but in enhancing it. He restructured the editorial board, which provides leadership and sets policy, but which, perhaps even more importantly, symbolizes the scholarly foundations of the journal. Jeff also created his own network of reviewers, without whom the critical standards of scholarship could not be maintained. I have thus been most fortunate in my inheritance. The Journal ofResearch in Crime and Delinquency has a special niche in the increasingly competitive market for criminal justice journals. This niche has been developed and nurtured over many years. It is not a speciality journal focusing, for example, on corrections, courts, or the police. We also do not publish merely descriptive pieces on various criminal justice policies and practices, for which there are a number of forums. Traditional book reviews also do not find their place in JRCD. Our focus and interest is in publishing rigorous quantitative and qualitative research that is theory testing. This includes action research, comparative research, and evaluation research, when these are theory-based. Apropos the journal's future niche, I want, as editor, to publish more of two kinds of pieces. The first are book review essays; some of which the journal has done in the past. I indicated earlier that we do not publish traditional book reviews. We are, however, interested in critical review essays that assess several books sharing a common theme or subject matter. JRCD JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, Vol. 34 No. 1, February 1997 3-4 @ 1997 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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