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12 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (1996)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc12 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 12, No. 1. 1996 From the Editor The Journal of Quantitative Criminology celebrated its tenth anniversary in 1995. At the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Boston this past November, I organized a plenary session to mark this special occasion. This plenary brought together several prominent scholars to assess advances in quantitative research in criminology and criminal jus- tice over the last decade. In general, I believe that such stock-taking ventures are important for our field. It is an especially opportune time to evaluate the state of quantita- tive research given the increased availability of quantitative data on crime and criminal justice through data archives and other electronic media. Simul- taneously, we have witnessed the development of more sophisticated and powerful data analytic techniques over the last decade. Four papers were presented at the ASC session: David Farrington, Marianne Junger, Per-Olof Wikstrom, and Ross Homel examined quantita- tive criminology in the English-speaking world outside of North America; Michael Maltz discussed the influence of operations research in the field of criminal justice; Alfred Blumstein explored the interaction of quantitative research with crime policy; and Candace Kruttschnitt addressed the contri- butions of quantitative methods to the study of gender and crime. My plan is to publish all four of these papers over the course of this calendar year. Each paper will appear as the lead article of the issue. In this way, the dialogue begun at the ASC meeting on where quantitative criminology has been and what new directions quantitative research should take over the next 10 years will continue throughout the year. This first issue in Volume 12 features Michael Maltz's review, From Poisson to the Present: Applying Operations Research to Problems of Crime and Justice, as the lead article. Although the application of operations research to crimin- ology and criminal justice has been successful, given an even greater ava- lanche of printed numbers in the future, Maltz argues that we will need to develop better ways of handling multiple streams of data. One implication of the increasing amounts of data, according to Maltz, is that we adopt team approaches to data analysis in quantitative research. 1 0748-4518/96/0300-0001S09.50/0 Q 1996 Plenum Publishing Corporation

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