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27 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv27 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL 2000 W ith this issue, Criminal Justice and Behavior will begin pub- lishing six issues per year rather than its traditional four. The decision to move from being a quarterly to a bimonthly publication stems from several factors. First, the number of manuscripts that we receive each year has been steadily increasing to the point where we were rejecting nearly 94% of the manuscripts submitted. Rejections are rarely an easy task for editors and certainly not something that authors like to receive for their efforts. Second, the publication lag for accepted manuscripts was moving beyond the critical point of 18 months. Publication lag is an insidious disease that every thoughtful journal tries to avoid because it discourages future authors from sub- mitting timely manuscripts to the journal and requires an uncomfort- able balancing act from the editor. Third, the acceptance of some of the many quality manuscripts that we received left us little room for special issues or thematic topics in future publications. Issues devoted exclusively to a relevant and timely topic in forensic psychology are an extremely important mission of the journal, and I shall try to develop two special issues annually. In fact, we plan to devote the upcoming June issue exclusively to the newly revised AACP Practice Standards put together by Chairman Dick Althouse and the other members of the Practice Standards Committee. One of the things that I have been most concerned about is the excessive delay in the editorial decision-making on the status of sub- mitted manuscripts. During the past 2 years, the flow of manuscripts have become overwhelming for the editorial staff and myself, causing editorial decisions on some articles to be inordinately delayed. I fear that these delays may have prompted some authors to pause before submitting their future work to our journal. Consequently, I have sought and received increased funding from Sage and the AACP, ena- bling me to bring on board additional editorial staff to help streamline the review process and afford more timely contact with the authors. I CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 27 No. 1, February 2000 3-5 Q 2000 American Association for Correctional Psychology 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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