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16 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv16 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S PREFACE From time to time, I have used this space to express goals for Criminal Justice and Behavior, or to discuss items that seem pertinent to our readers. I have heard strong, positive response to these notes, so I shall continue them, and focus this one on four topics. First, the press to publish that some authors feel must be enormous. With reviewers' help, I have tracked down two submissions for publication that had been published elsewhere, with but a few cosmetic changes. These were good articles when first published, but publishing them again serves no purpose, wastes valuable journal space, and supports unethical conduct in that readers may interpret a second or third article as three separate studies with separate samples. The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology was a victim of this type of chicanery a half decade ago when an author kept publishing data with increasing N, leading readers (and apparently the editor) to believe there were new samples. Instead the samples were aggregated in each new article. The reviewers and your editor are alert to maintain the highest standards but there is no substitute for author integrity despite the press to publish. Second, journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior are archival. Yet the term journal means daily. We strive to capture contemporary trends, such as the growing litigiousness of our clients, yet as a repository of knowledge, we intend to publish those articles that are potential classics, that articulate issues so that scholars need to consult these articles when doing thorough literature reviews. This point, timeliness and time worthiness, is related to the third topic. Journal publishing is an activity calling for great delays in gratification. Our March issue reaches the reader closer to April, and has been sent in by October 1. The review process itself takes several months. The data were gathered, analyzed, interpreted, and then put in manuscript form over the course of many months. Then, in virtually all cases, the authors were obliged to respond to our able reviewers' comments to improve the manuscript further. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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