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9 Critical Criminology 5 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/ctlcrm9 and id is 1 raw text is: From the Chair Martin D. Schwartz, Ohio University. Chair, Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology I (well, most) journals reach a crossroads in their futures at regular times. Some reach them more often than others. In the case of Critical Criminology, we now face major changes. One important change is that we are going to be published by Kluwer Publications in Holland, which has a number of good, bad, and even a bit scary aspects. Even more important is that, for the first time in the history of the journal (you are looking at Volume 9), it will not be edited by Brian MacLean et al. In many ways this journal is Brian MacLean (not withstanding the enormous contributions by Dawn Currie and many others), so we are now at a crossroad in the journal's history. Critical Criminology will now be published three times a year, and with any luck should be doing better technically at a number of things. This is the good and the bad simultaneously. From a grassroots operation of the division, mostly done (at a financial loss) by Brian and Dawn and their press, we are moving to a major publishing house. We will lose all of the advantages of 100% control, in the hopes of gaining a solid financial footing. As you all know, the financial footing has been a serious problem, as this journal was not produced' until the dues of the Division on Critical Criminology were raised dramatically. Here, I take a moment to reflect upon where we have been, where we are going, and how it will be accomplished. A BIT OF HISTORY Of course, everyone who writes a history would do it differently, but the bare bones is that this journal had its roots in a group that formed on the Canadian left, the Human Justice Collective, which itself had its roots in a conference organized by Brian MacLean and Dawn Currie in 1986 on 'The Administration of Justice.' The Collective included a wide variety of members, but what drew them together is a strong belief that criminal justice studies were too narrow to capture the boundaries of human injustice within liberal western states that guarantee equality under law. An expanded discourse that was multi-discipli- nary, they felt, was required to avoid theoretical poverty.

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