Editorial.

• Author: Roberts, Julian V.

This issue of the journal inaugurates a new era in the history of our publication. The journal will henceforth be published by the University of Toronto Press, the leading scholarly press in this country and one of the major academic presses in the world. I would like to thank the Press for its assistance in this transition period. As well, I express my appreciation to Elizabeth White, President of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, Dru Allen, and all members of the CCJA executive for their continued support of our journal. All scholarly journals must evolve, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology is no exception. We are marking this transition in a number of ways.

First, as the reader will already have noted, the title has changed. The Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice reflects our mandate to publish research on the administration of justice, as well as in the field of criminology. Most other countries have separate journals for criminology and criminal justice. In the United Kingdom, for example, there is the British Journal of Criminology and the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. No journal comparable to the Howard Journal exists in Canada. In fact, matters have deteriorated in this respect; until a few years ago, criminal justice scholars had a separate journal on policing, which, alas, is no longer in existence.

The second change involves the addition to the Editorial Advisory Committee of a number of distinguished scholars from Canada and other countries (see back cover). I would like to welcome them to the journal and thank them for joining the editorial committee.

The third change is the addition to the 2003 volume of a special issue on the question of wrongful convictions, edited by Myriam Denov and Katherine Campbell. This issue will contain contributions from international scholars and will be provided at no extra charge to subscribers later in the year. We hope to publish an additional issue or special section on an annual basis and welcome any suggestions from readers regarding potential topics.

My final message is addressed to those unfortunate readers who read these words while seated in the relative discomfort of an institutional library. For these poor souls, access to the journal is subject to restrictive library opening hours, the incessant chatter of other library users, and the pervasive intrusion of the mobile telephone. For a very modest sum relative to other scholarly journals, you could...