Internationalization, Inclusion, Integrity, and Impact: Reflections on the 2018–2022 Editorial Term*

• Author: Kristy Holtfreter,Susan F. Sharp,Leslie Gordon Simons,Xia Wang,Patricia Y. Warren,Emily M. Wright
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/15570851221120615
• Published date: 01 October 2022
• Date: 01 October 2022
• Subject Matter: Editorial

Editorial

Feminist Criminology

2022, Vol. 17(4) 439–449

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Internationalization, Inclusion,

Integrity, and Impact:

Ref‌lections on the 2018–2022

Editorial Term*

Kristy Holtfreter

1

, Susan F. Sharp

2

, Leslie Gordon Simons

3

,

Xia Wang

1

, Patricia Y. Warren

4

, and Emily M. Wright

5

Introduction

With the last issue of 2022 (December) now in production, the current editorial

leadership team concludes our term having accomplished the majority of goals outlined

for the journal in the 2017 application for editorship (Holtfreter, 2018). In this f‌inal

editorial introduction, we ref‌lect on Feminist Criminology’s position as a leading

journal on gender and crime, with a special focus on the key milestones advanced

during our editorial term. We also discuss editorial processes and best practices, in-

cluding Feminist Criminology’s membership in the Committee on Publication Ethics

(COPE) which we joined in 2019 at the recommendation of Sally Simpson, then-

President of the American Society of Criminology who also served on our editorial

board. Let us elaborate.

Throughout this term, our approach to leading the journal has been informed by the

vision that articles published in Feminist Criminology should contribute in at least one

of three ways (Holtfreter, 2018). First, they should guide future empirical research or

theoretical development, either by testing theory directly, integrating existing theory, or

proposing new theory. A second important quality for articles published in Feminist

1

Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

2

University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

3

University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

4

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

5

University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA

Corresponding Author:

Kristy Holtfreter, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Ave.,

Ste. 600, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA.

Email: kholtfreter@gmail.com