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15 How. J. Penology & Crime Prevention [iii] (1976-1977)

handle is hein.journals/hjcj15 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial The Howard Journal has a new frequency, a new publisher, and a new look. There has always been a difficulty with the annual periodical. It is not fair to authors to ask them to wait a full year if space prevents immediate publi- cation; so each year one starts from scratch in the search for good copy. Meanwhile authors do not automatically think of the annual periodical as an outlet when they are considering where to place their latest piece. To obviate these difficulties, the Howard Journal will now appear thrice yearly. This may seem a bold gesture in the present economic climate, but we firmly belive it is justified. Despite the difficulties of annual publication, the Howard Journal has over the years maintained a consistently high standard of content. Moreover, if we leave aside the 'house journals' (such as Probation and the Prison Service Journal), there is no British journal other than the Howard Journal which is exclusively devoted to penal and other social policy relating to crime; but if ever a journal were needed dealing with penal policy in a sophisticated yet clear manner, that time is now. As we argue more fully below, these are critical days in the evolution of penal ideas and penal Oolicy. But these are also days when (for complex reasons to do with both theor- etical developments in criminology and an accumulation of negative research results in penology) penal reformers, practitioners, and academics find it harder to communicate than they did a decade or two ago. The Howard Journal is for penal reformers, practitioners and academics, and it is an im- portant part of our task to ensure that real communication between them occurs through our pages. We hope that members of all three groups will contribute to the journal, and we hope also that they will write to tell us if we do not adequately reflect their particular interests in our current content. Any journal is only of value if it reaches the right people and contains worth- while material: we depend on our readers and contributors. We hope that all will help us to make a real success of our new frequency and new format. A journal without a publisher is also an impossibility. We welcome our new alliance with Barry Rose Publishers Ltd., of Chichester and trust that this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration. The ferment in penology and penal policy Despite their very different content, there is an important unity of theme in the contributions to our first 'new-look' issue. Earlier in the post-war period advanced penal opinion favoured individualised sentencing, the devel- opment of sophisticated therapeutic regimes in prisons and borstals, the

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