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7 Eur. J. on Crim. Pol'y & Rsch. 1 (1999)

handle is hein.journals/eurjcpr7 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL Most academic journals depend on spontaneous offers from authors who want to have their articles published. The contents of these journals vary considerably. This might be the reason that there seems to be an increasing specialisation in the titles of journals. (Another reason for this might be the marketing policy of proliferation by the publishing companies.) The European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research aims to be a general journal for the criminal justice field. Its specialisation is evident in the single-topic issues, which seem to be of interest from a research-based policy perspective. Every issue of the journal concentrates on one main topic and is compiled using articles from experts - mostly researchers, sometimes policy makers. The Editorial Board is responsible for the make- up of the issue, and is guided by knowledge of the field, searches of the Information Department of the WODC (Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice) and sometimes by suggestions put forward by members of the Advisory Board of the journal. Every edition of the journal can actually be seen as an state-of-the-art collection of information on the subject. For this reason the journal has an invitational editorial policy. Authors are invited to contribute to the journal, and the Editors are happy to announce that their requests are scarcely ever ignored or turned down. Regularly, however, articles are spontaneously sent in by authors who want to have their work published in this journal. These contributions are welcomed by the editors. Sometimes they trigger the idea for a complete edition on the subject. Sometimes they are published in the Current Issues section, and sometimes they are kept in stock or have to be refused. Over the last few months of 1998 the Editors received a series of high-quality articles. They therefore decided to make an exception to the editorial policy and proudly present this issue of miscellaneous studies. It is an indication that the journal is appreciated and trusted as a publication in the criminal justice field. The issue begins with an article byMichael Tonry on community penalties. These penalties have proliferated in the United States since the early 1980s. Simultaneously it is also true to say, that whilst conceptualised as 'alternatives to incarceration', they have conspicuously failed as a device for diverting otherwise prison-bound offenders from penal institutions. The US Department of Justice has supported a series of evaluations carried out on a wide range of newly developed community penalties, like house arrest, electronic monitoring, intensively supervised probation, mandatory drug treatment, community & European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 7: 1-3, 1999.

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