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30 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj30 and id is 1 raw text is: Women & Criminal Justice, 30: 1-4, 2020 RoutledA © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 1 outeLge ISSN: 0897-4454 print/1541-0323 online Taylor& Francis Group DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2019.1683801 EDITORIAL Introduction to the 30th Anniversary of Women & Criminal Justice Since the journal's inception 30 years ago, Women & Criminal Justice has been a ground- breaking forum for the analysis of criminal law, policy and programs that impact women as offenders, victims and practitioners in the field of criminal justice. It should be no surprise to our authors and readers that most research on crime and justice has either simplified gender issues or ignored it. In the 20th century, feminist scholars may have had difficulty publishing their research in journals, which emphasized quantitative criminology if their research on women and girls was qualitative in design. This journal began as a place for a myriad of scholarship that addressed gender as a core construct for responding to crime and victimiza- tion. Analyzing women's stories is not just about the numbers, but also about the context within which women navigate the world around them. The journal aims to be inclusive in terms of methodology and at the cutting edge of contemporary issues that impact the field. While many studies on women and crime focus on Western nations (see Feeley & Aviram, 2010), an emerging area of research is on whether or not these research findings are consistent with findings in other nations. We have to acknowledge that western responses to crime and victimization may or may not be relevant to communities in Asia and Africa. Feeley and Aviram (2010: 165) call for more studies that are outside the Northern European context. Women & Criminal Justice, particularly under my editorship for the past decade, has aimed to include papers that analyze new or enduring problems which impact local and global communities. Some evidence for an enhanced agenda in publishing a broad array of research on women and crime is shown by the journal's special issues. The first special issue under my editorship concerned human sex trafficking in 2010. That issue continues to have articles highly downloaded and cited. Despite the United States pass- ing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000, the field of criminal justice was just com- ing to terms with modern-day slavery in 2010. Consequently, the issue provided a specialized forum for publishing quantitative and qualitative research on sex trafficking offending and victimization. Today, a wide range of research is performed on sex trafficking law reform, global human trafficking networks, and research on how to identify victims and implement policy changes to assist victims. Women & Criminal Justice continues to publish

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