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3 Eur. J. Criminology 5 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/eujcrim3 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 3 (1): 5-9: 1477-3708 E DOI: 10.1177/1477370806059078 urOpean Copyright Q 2006 European Society of Criminology and SAGE Publications Cr London, Thousand Oaks CA, and New Delhi Tmllogy www.sagepublications.com EDITORIAL Editorial Supporting the Development of Criminology in Europe David J. Smith University of Edinburgb, UK, and London Scbool of Economics, UK There are very compelling reasons why the founders of the European Society of Criminology made it a top priority to establish an academic journal in which research of the highest quality could be published. There are, of course, well-established English-language journals in Britain, the United States, Australasia and some other countries. Also, scholars writing in some European languages other than English have excellent outlets for publishing their work. However, this still leaves an enormous gap in the dissemination of findings about crime and criminal justice. Where the tradition is already well established, as in France and Germany, findings are only exceptionally published in English - for example, if they emerge from an international collaboration such as those organized by GERN in Paris.' Where the tradition is nascent, it is very hard for scholars from other countries to gain access to research findings. In principle, the major American and British journals may accept an article from any country, but in practice most of these journals are dominated by articles from local authors about local or regional issues. It is essential therefore to have a journal that serves scholars of crime and criminal justice across the full range of European countries. This is all the more important because, unlike mathematics, criminol- ogy is not a set of abstract and universal truths and, unlike physics or chemistry, it is not based on a single, largely uncontested set of method- ologies. Rather than a single discipline, with a coherent set of values and standards broadly accepted by all practitioners, criminology applies a wide 1 GERN: Groupe Europ&en de Recherches sur les Normativites (European Research Group on Norms).

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