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44 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 3 (2011)

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                                                                   Australian & New Zealand
                                                                     journal of Criminology
Editorial                                                                       44(1) 3
                                                                     @ The Author(s) 2011
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                                                               DOI: 10. 1177/0004865811401301
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Dr A.A. Bartholomew,  the founding editor of the ANZJC offered his inaugural editorship
from his desk at HM  Prison, Pentridge Melbourne. His editorial implored the Journal to
publish articles which take in a broad view of criminology. Notably, the contents of that
first issue concerned corporal punishment, the complimentarity or otherwise of welfare
and research (written by a doctoral student undertaking research on prisoner's families), a
study of probation officers and David Biles' first contribution to the Journal on the use of
tests post arrival at Pentridge. Now in its 44th year, and our first issue with SAGE, it is
timely that the ANZJC  returns to broadly viewed issues of imprisonment.
   The Guest Editors of this Special Issue have indeed brought together a broad reading of
criminology in interrogating the current state of research on prisons and incarceration.
Prisons and related closed institutions are arguably the most challenging sites for crimino-
logical research. As Mark Israel and Yvonne Jewkes have cogently argued, they offer sites of
intense intellectual, policy-making, political and social challenge that criminologists need to
both intellectualise as well as emotionally process. Even research on prisons, undertaken at a
distance, yield moral challenges and difficulties that can rarely be neatly resolved. Similarly,
the landscapes and practices of imprisonment can be difficult to reconcile across place and
time and the debate between Professors John Pratt, David Brown and Loic Wacquant begin
in this issue with Professor Wacquant scheduled to respond in the next issue.
   The publication of the ANZJC  by SAGE  results after a long courtship. This courtship
was undertaken  in the climate of understanding and respect for the history of the Journal
and its service to the criminological and criminal justice communities of Australia and
New  Zealand. It was also informed  by the increasing importance of international col-
laborations between scholars and  practitioners which so often accelerates the pace of
new  thinking and policy change. Our arrangement  with SAGE,   with the ongoing sup-
port of our authors, reviewers and readers, will see the Journal move into the hands of so
many  more  criminologists world wide - moving  more  deeply into Europe  and North
America  as well as making more  significant inroads into the libraries and holdings of
countries throughout the Global South  including South East Asia. The fine articles we
are so pleased to publish deserve this extensive audience. I hope the reach of our articles
continues to live up to the publication of research and exchange of ideas in the field of
criminology envisaged when this Journal was founded and whatever view of criminology
is taken today, the next issue of the Journal should always be yet another attempt to
further challenge and advance the subject matter of criminology.

                                                                              Editor
                                                                    Sharon Pickering
                                                                  Monash   University

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