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40 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd40 and id is 1 raw text is: DEPARTING EDITOR'S NOTE MERCER L. SULLIVAN This issue of Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency marks the formal transition of editorship from me to my colleague Clayton Hartjen. Clay has actually been running the journal under the title acting editor over the past year while I was on sabbatical. As a result, the transition is already made. After my 3 years as active editor and a year on leave, I commend him to the journal's readers, contributors, and reviewers as a scholar and editor com- mitted to maintaining the high standards I inherited from my predecessors. The founding editor of JRCD, Don Gottfredson, died this past year, on June 23, 2002. As all readers of this journalknow, he was one of the truly out- standing figures in our field. Through his own research and other profes- sional activities, he played a key role in establishing scholarship in crimi- nology and criminal justice as a scientific enterprise, one that is equally important as basic science and as a respected source of standards for policy and practice. His own scholarship stands as a landmark in our understanding of how decisions are made in the criminal justice system. Besides his schol- arly accomplishments, which received recognition in the form of most of the important awards and offices in the field, he built first-tier institutions. The Rutgers School of Criminal Justice is one. JRCD is another. It has been an honor and a challenge inheriting the editorship. It came down to me from him, by way of Vincent O'Leary and Jeffrey Fagan. I know that Clay, who has been around Rutgers longer than I, values this tradition, and I have already seen how conscientiously he maintains it. In looking back on my editorship, the thing that most impresses me is the constant awareness that I was taking part in a tradition and a community. It was a job, of course, and a difficult one at times. I am a relative latecomer to the institutional center of criminology and criminal justice scholarship, hav- ing labored for many years before that as a community anthropologist who studied crime from that perspective. I came to thejob of editor with the sense that I did not have the fully developed personal networks and experience in the field that can be so helpful in running a journal. That feeling is all gone now, not least as a result of the trial by fire of editorship. I have been sleeping better lately, partly because I know I can forward the anxious e-mails directly to Clay, but also because I am proud of what we have published since I took over. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, Vol. 40 No. 1, February 2003 3-4 DOI: 10.1177/0022427802239793 © 2003 Sage Publications 3

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