Editor's Comments

• Published date: 01 July 1982
• Date: 01 July 1982
• Author: Vincent O'Leary
• DOI: 10.1177/002242788201900201
• Subject Matter: Articles

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EDITOR’S

COMMENTS As

it

is

with each

of

us,

cer-

tain

periods

in

life

are

marked

by

great

changes,

and

so

it

is

in

the

life

of

this

Journal.

First,

it

is

my

sad

duty

to

report

the

passing

of

a

friend

and

colleague,

Michael

Hindelang.

A

full

professor

at

the

age

of

30,

Mike

had

a

brilliant

career,

a

part

of

which

included

an

associate

editorship

of

the

Journal

of Research

in

Crime

and

Delinquency.

A

statement

about

Mike

follows.

Suffice

to

say

here

he

will

be

missed

greatly.

Second,

Michael

Gottfredson

has

resigned

as

Associate

Editor

of

the

Journal,

with

his

appointment

to

the

Department

of

Sociology

at

the

University

of

Illinois,

where

he

will

specialize

in

criminology.

Michael

has

made

great

contributions

to

the

Journal

during

his

stay

at

Albany,

and

we

extend

our

appreciation

to

him

for

those

efforts.

He

will

continue

his

association

with

the

Journal

as

a

Consulting

Editor.

We

are

pleased

to

announce

that

David

Duffee

will

assume

the

position

of

Associate

Editor

in

Michael’s

place.

David

is

a

distinguished

scholar

and

an

old

friend

who

will

continue

the

fine

traditions

of

the

Journal.

Finally,

this

edition

of

the

Journal

marks

the

last

that

will

be

edited

by

Sarah

Dike

of

NCCD,

who

is

leaving

for

a

post

in

England.

We

wish

her

well

in

her

new

venture,

and

we

want

to

mark

her

departure

publicly

with

the

statement

that

she

has

been

a

key

person

in

producing

what

I

believe

is

a

first-rate

Journal.

She

will

be

very

difficult

to

replace.

Despite

all

these

changes,

the

Journal

goes

on,

and

this

is

a

particularly

interesting

edition.

Not

only

is

the

quality

of

the

articles

uniformly

high,

but,

moreover,

they

represent

much

of

the

spectrum

of

crime

and

delinquency

research.

The

first

two

articles

address

deter-

rence

research,

a

subject

of

increasing

activity

and

interest

in

recent

years.

Linda

Saltzman

and

her

colleagues

report

on

an

innovative

attempt

to

measure

deterrent

effects

through

the

use

of

a

self-report,

longitudinal

study.

A

near

replication

of

that

study

is

described

in

our

second

article,

by

William

Minor

and

Joseph

Harry.

These

two

studies

raise

serious

questions

about

the

conclusions

that

rely

on

techniques

which

try

to

assess

the

effect

of

deterrence

by

relating

present

attitudes

and

prior

behaviors.

It

is

rare

indeed

when

sequential

studies

such

as

these

are

published

together,

and

they

are

worth

close

reading.

The

next

set

of’

articles

presents

research

aimed

directly

at

the

criminal

justice

system.

The

first

of

these,

by

Eli

Noam,

uses

an

operations

research

approach

to

court

congestion

and

suggests

a

means

of

optimizing

scant

court

resources

in

order

to

gain

the

greatest

social

good.

Next

is

a

study

of

prison

discipline

by

Timothy

Flanagan,

which

examines

discretion

in

the

disciplinary

systems

of

prisons

from

a

general

model

of

&dquo;judicial&dquo;

fairness.

Flanagan

concludes

that

the

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