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31 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc31 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial John Pratt I am delighted to have been appointed Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. I hope that I will continue to take it successfully along the route that has been charted for it by all its previous editors - particularly those whom I have come to know since arriving in the southern hemisphere: Chris Alder, Ross Homel and David Dixon. I would also like to thank David for the very helpful induction he has given me to editorial responsibilities in the transitional period of the last few months. The editorial staff at Butterworths (Ingrid Pagura and Elio Giorgi) have been particularly helpful and instructive and, as usual, I am indebted to Sandy Taylor, the Administration Assistant here at the Institute of Criminology for making computer technology understandable, even to me. When an old friend of mine discovered that I had been appointed editor of the journal, he asked me what my mission statement was. This took me back a bit. I've done a fair bit of work on 'managerialism' as an increasingly important force in the shaping of late twentieth century penality, but I do not believe that, as yet, I have come to think it and speak it myself. At the same time, I do not know if I am actually empowered by the Society to produce a mission statement. I suspect that the Society's rules and procedures, perhaps happily, were drawn up in an era that predates the 'mission statement' ethos of late modernity, were drawn up in an era when 'visions' were things that only prophets had. Personally, I have never been one for trying to see into the future. However, while not having a 'mission statement' to hand, I do obviously have a set of ideas as to how I would like to see the journal developing during my tenure of editorial office. First, as Ross Homel stated in his opening editorial to the December 1992 issue, I would like to see the journal develop further 'so that it becomes recognized as one of the best criminology journals in the world.' I think that one of the ways in which this might be achieved is to continue to build on the intrinsic criminological strengths that we have in this part of the world. In this, the year of the journal's thirtieth birthday, the local criminological field is probably bigger than ever, as criminology itself has established a firm place for itself as a respected tertiary discipline, and also has its own sub-disciplines such as police studies and justice studies which have come to proliferate in recent years. A bigger and more diverse potential audience then - and which also necessitates that the journal itself firmly maintains a pluralistic editorial policy: articles will be welcome from all the various shades of opinion, from positivism to postmodernism, that help to constitute criminology the exciting and dynamic discipline that it is. The journal will thus continue to be generic, reflecting qualitative and quantitative research, that which is policy oriented, that which is purely theoretical, that which is historical and so on. It is also hoped that we may also be able to publish articles on teaching and other pedagogical issues. (Instructions to 1 * Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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