EDITORS’ NOTE

• Author: Eric P. Baumer,Rosemary Gartner,D. Wayne Osgood
• Published date: 01 November 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12168
• Date: 01 November 2017

EDITORS’ NOTE

This issue of Criminology marks the end of our six-year editorship, and we want to thank

the many people who not only have helped us with this work but have made it such a

meaningful and satisfying experience. We are grateful to the American Society of Crimi-

nology’s Executive Board, Publications Committee, and membership, who have entrusted

us with this job and been so supportive. We greatly appreciate all the authors who have

submitted their papers to us and the many, many reviewers who have provided feedback

about those papers. Your efforts played a much bigger role in creating Criminology than

did ours. Our Editorial Advisory Board members have been an essential part of our team,

and we are deeply indebted to them for carrying a large share of the reviewing burden and

so consistently producing thoughtful and substantial reviews. Special thanks also to our

graduate student managing editors and our copy editor, Sheree Van Vreede, who have

done such a terrific job at maintaining the quality of the finished articles and keeping the

journal on time.

Our approach to the editors’ job has been to do our best to serve the criminologi-

cal community well and to keep the journal strong, in the belief that the two go hand

and hand: Authors will send us their best work when they believe they will be treated

fairly and receive prompt, well informed, and useful feedback. We looked for reviewers

who held high standards and wrote meaty and encouraging reviews, and we attempted

to write decision letters that gave authors meaningful explanations for our decisions and,

for invited revisions, clear guidance about the path to publication. We are proud that,

for every paper submitted to us, we provided authors an editorial decision in less than

three months, with a solid majority under two months. We believe that the review pro-

cess can be an engine for improving our field, as we help one another to improve our

current papers (whether ultimately published in Criminology or elsewhere) and to raise

our standards for future work.

Serving as co-editors of Criminology has been a high point in each of our careers, and

we thank all of you for this opportunity. We are delighted to know that we leave the

journal in the hands of the excellent incoming editorial team of David McDowall, Janet

Lauritsen, Jody Miller, and Brian Johnson, who already have been handling decisions

about newly submitted manuscripts for the past year. We trust they will find the job as

rewarding as we have.

D. Wayne Osgood

Pennsylvania State University

Eric P. Baumer

Pennsylvania State University

Rosemary Gartner

University of Toronto

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