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1 Theoretical Criminology 5 (1997)

handle is hein.journals/thcr1 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL STATEMENT Theoretical Criminology @ 1997 SAGE Publications o London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. il[ ON ISSN 1362-4806 Vol. 1(1): 5-11 For a number of years we have bemoaned the absence of a forum that could bring together and explore common theoretical concerns in a field which, at different rates in different countries, has become institutionally so vast and whose key pronouncements are increasingly the subject of state, media and popular attention. Theoretical Criminology is a new journal whose chief aim is to create an international forum for the advancement of the theoretical aspects of criminology. The scope of the journal will be broad and inclusive, fully recognizing the wide diversity of thinking within criminology. Theoretical Criminology will publish scholarship from all the disciplines which currently constitute criminology, notably sociology, his- tory, anthropology, law, politics, psychology, jurisprudence, philosophy, psychiatry, economics, geography and development studies. We welcome manuscript submissions from all parts of the globe and we intend to raise theoretical exchange within criminology to the same level as that in general social and political theory, and in so doing contribute to the development of the latter. Internationalism in Theoretical Criminology Quite apart from its exclusive focus on the theoretical aspects of crimi- nology, Theoretical Criminology (hereinafter, 'TC') will attempt to satisfy various international needs that are not met elsewhere in the discipline. First, given the inevitable priority that they attach to local issues, national criminologies can provide neither the size nor the quality of space required for international debate, for wide-ranging theoretical exchange and for comparative analysis. Indeed, the key assumptions, perspectives, concepts, theories and policy implications of such an enormous multinational enter- prise as criminology have such a common relevance to the multitude of nations that they require an international journal to provide a broad space for their assessment and development. The international dimension of a journal such as TC is also vital because theoretical debates in and of themselves are general and, as such, are best advanced by contributions from all parts of the globe. Transnational debate has the great advantage of being able to expose the prejudices and limitations of national crimi- nologies. Moreover, crime itself is increasingly an international phenom- enon requiring theories which reflect upon its transnational roots, 5 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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