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19 Theoretical Criminology 3 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/thcr19 and id is 1 raw text is: Theoretical Criminology 2015, Vol. 19(1) 3-4 Editorial The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1362480614568741 tcr.sagepub.corn OSAGE It is our pleasure to announce that the 2014 Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize has been awarded to Michelle Brown of the University of Tennessee for her article 'Visual criminology and carceral studies: Counter-images in the carceral age'. Each year the Theoretical Criminology Editors, Associate Editors and Review Editors are asked to select the best article from the previous year's content. This year they were joined by some International Advisory Editors. We ask the panel to pay particular attention to those articles which advance critical inquiry in the field of theoretical criminology. Qualities sought included clarity of writing, breadth of ambition and original inquiry. In the selection process this year, panel members commended a wide array of excellent articles that appeared in Theoretical Criminology over the past year. They selected 'Visual criminology and carceral studies' over a number of others because of its methodological and intellectual insights. Drawing together the disparate fields of visual criminology, prison studies and activism, Michelle Brown offers an uplifting and academically rigorous view of the possibilities of thinking otherwise. Drawing on a wide range and variety of evidence, from photos, to testimonies and secondary literature, Brown develops a compelling framework for integrating the visual into critical and theoretical criminology. On behalf of the panel, we congratulate Michelle for her achievement. In recognition of this prize, she will receive £100 worth of SAGE books of her choice. The article will be made available as a free download on the Theoretical Criminology website. We would also like to take this occasion to welcome Alpa Parmar of the University of Oxford to the journal as joint UK Review Editor and Vanessa Barker and Alessandro De Giorgi as Associate Editors. Alpa will be working alongside Bethan Loftus and Leslie Paik commissioning and editing book reviews. We would like to thank Eamonn Carrabine, who is stepping down as an Associate Editor to become Co-Editor of Crime Media Culture. Eamonn will remain involved with Theoretical Criminology as an International Advisory Editor. In this issue, we also continue our occasional series 'Debating Theoretical Criminology'. In this series, we asked scholars a set of questions about the utility, draw- backs, pitfalls, promise and nature of 'theory'. How is 'theory', as generally understood in Theoretical Criminology, related to the grand causal explanations of 'crime' that fall under the heading of 'criminological theory'? Are these unrelated projects that happen to share similar names, are they reconcilable, or must 'theory' be inherently critical of the

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