Editorial.

• Author: Carrington, Peter

Beginning with this issue, the Journal has a new editorial team. CJCCJ has enjoyed remarkable success in the past 11 years under the leadership of Julian Roberts as Editor, with Jean-Paul Brodeur, Tom Gabor, and John Hylton as Associate Editors and Michelle Grossman, Andre Normandeau, and Gilles Renaud as Book Review Editors. Among the many achievements of this period are the increase in the number of special issues, devoted to a single theme and published in addition to the four regular issues; the recognition, via a name change, of criminal justice as a topic of interest to the Journal; and the move to the University of Toronto Press as publisher, enabling CJCCJ to benefit from the services of UTP's highly professional journal publishing division. As a result, the Journal now has two Web sites: one maintained by the Canadian Criminal Justice Association at http://www.ccja-acjp.ca/en/ cjc.html, and one maintained by UTP at http://www.utpjournals.com/jour. ihtml?lp=cjccj/cjccj.html.

I believe that it is worthwhile to have a scientific journal devoted to criminological research that is particularly relevant to Canada and to Canadians-which is why I have accepted the position of Editor. If you agree with me, then please send your work to the Journal, and please subscribe. Without articles to publish, the Journal loses its raison d'etre. I will strive to maintain the Journal's current practice of providing editorial decisions on submitted articles within three months of submission, wherever possible. I am happy to entertain proposals for guest-edited thematic special issues. As well as regular research articles, the Journal will continue to publish shorter research notes, commentaries (on articles published in the Journal or other matters of interest to readers), and book reviews.

This issue inaugurates some changes in procedure. The Instructions to Authors have been revised to reflect our increasing dependence on electronic transmission of articles during the editorial and production processes; please see the revised Instructions on either of the Journal's Web sites. The procedures for submitting and publishing book reviews have also been revised. In 2002, the Journal began to publish book reviews on its Web site rather than in printed issues. A substantial number of Web-published book reviews have now accumulated, some in French and some in English. Book reviews will continue to be published on the Journal's two Web sites, but, beginning...