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20 Punishment & Soc'y 3 (2018)

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Editorial


                                                                  Punishment & Society
                                                                  2018, Vol. 20(I) 3-7
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                                                         DOI: 10. 1177/1462474517741844
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Mona Lynch
University of California, USA

Kelly  Hannah-Moffat
University of Toronto, Canada



The  first issue of Punishment & Society was published in 1999, at a time when
punitive politics and populism was  reaching an apex  globally, and when estab-
lished penal logics were being supplanted by new ones. In his inaugural editorial,
founding editor David Garland  (1999: 5) characterized punishment as one of the
most pressing problems  of our age, which called for a distinct intellectual outlet
for scholarship on punishment. According  to Garland  (1999: 8),

   the new centrality of penal politics and the changing configuration of the field, togeth-
   er with the growth over the last two decades of a vigorous and impressive body of new
   penological scholarship made it seem timely and important to establish a forum for
   this kind of discussion and debate.

With  this declaration, Volume 1, Issue 1 of Punishment & Society was launched.
The  journal has gone  on to become   the premiere international publication on
punishment   and  penal   control. As  its current  editors, we   also consider
Punishment  &  Society to be the manifestation of an  immensely  important  and
generative field of intellectual inquiry.
   This special issue commemorates the beginning of Punishment  & Society's 20th
year and was  conceived with several goals in mind. The first was to reflect upon
and celebrate the past two decades of scholarship in the field, including what has
been published in this journal. More importantly, though, we wanted to survey the
landscape to critically assess what we might have missed. We  were fortunate to
have the roster of former Punishment & Society editors contribute to this endeavor.
After selecting from proposed submissions, the group of editors and authors met


Corresponding author:
Mona Lynch, Criminology, Law & Society, School of Law, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Email: lynchm@uci.edu

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