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51 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd51 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 2014, Vol 51(1) 3-4 Note from the K© The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permission: Editor, Februarysagepub.com/journalsPerissions.nav DOl: 10.1177/0022427813518663 2014 Jrcd.sagepub.comn 201I4 OSAGE With this first issue of Volume 51, I'm pleased to announce two significant developments. First, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (JRCD) will now publish six issues per year, with a concomitant increase in total pages. That will help accepted papers get into print more quickly and allow us to publish more research. The Journal's acceptance rate has hovered around 9%. We do not expect that to change much. Instead, we hope to increase the number of interesting, original, and high-quality papers submitted to JRCD. The Editorial Board and I are grateful to SAGE for this expanded support. Second, in mid-2014, we will publish a special issue commemorating the first 50 years of JRCD. Papers by well-known scholars, many of whom are members of the Editorial Board, examine a range of topics. Some topics are familiar and have been addressed in JRCD papers throughout our first 50 years. Others address relatively new questions or new approaches to tra- ditional questions. Putting these two developments together makes it possible to plan more special issues. JRCD has published the occasional special issue, but the Edi- torial Board and I now envision devoting one issue per year to a special topic. With continued change in academic publishing, edited books have become costly and difficult to manage. On the other hand, academic journals are increasingly available and read through packages of subscriptions. Special issues can be viewed as something like an edited book that is more widely accessible. Papers published in all past special issues go through the normal peer-review process. In fact, the occasional proposed special issue has not been published because some submissions did not survive peer review. Papers submitted for any future special issue will similarly be processed through anonymous peer review. At our annual meeting, members of the Editorial Board discussed a couple of examples of possible special issues. One draws on the growing

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