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1 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health ii (1991)

handle is hein.journals/cbmh1 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 1, ii-iv, 1991 @ Whurr Publishers Ltd Editorial Welcome to Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. If the length of gestation is directly related to the quality of the newborn then this journal should be excellent. David Farring- ton and I perceived a need for such a journal as long ago as 1975. We believed and still believe that there is a place for a serious academic journal which embraces a number of disciplines that study socially unacceptable behaviours. The disciplines that we considered to be of primary importance were our own: forensic psychiatry, psychology and criminol- ogy! Criminology has its roots in forensic psychiatry, although these days it is more closely associated with psychology, and we feel that scientific cross-fertilisation between these subjects is still of great importance. Our first efforts to produce such a journal led instead to a small series of year books - a series called Current Research in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychol- ogy (Gunn & Farrington, 1982; Farrington & Gunn, 1988a,b). After three volumes this stopped and our, then, publisher decided against going on to a journal as we had hoped. We were therefore delighted when Pamela Taylor introduced us to Harold Maxwell, and via him to Colin Whurr who was hoping to start a journal such as this and who has taken us and our ideas on with alacrity. Whether the journal's long gestation will in fact lead to excellence depends on our readers and contributors. We therefore want an active dialogue with you about standards, ideas for improvement, new columns and the like. Let me explain some of the first ideas. We want to publish material of a high scholastic standard. It does not have to be scientific, but we expect there to be a bias towards scientific papers. We ii

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