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10 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (1994)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc10 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1994 From the Editor This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and I am happy to report that quantitative criminology is alive and well. At this juncture, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology appears to be in especially good shape. As stated in these pages before, one of my goals is to expose the Journal of Quantitative Criminology to a wider audience of empirically oriented criminologists. One way of assessing this expanded audience is to examine the number of new authors to the JournalofQuantita- tive Criminology. As with Volume 8, 1992 (my first year as editor), I am pleased to report that 83% of the papers we published in Volume 9, 1993 (excluding the special issue on Gender, Crime, and Criminal Justice), were new authors to the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. There now appears to be a larger base of quantitative researchers publishing papers in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and, as a result, I hope that the Journal of Quantitative Criminology is recognized as an integral element in delivering a wide range of high-quality quantitative research on crime and criminal justice to the research community. I continue to extend an open invitation to all empirical researchers to think of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology as an outlet for your work. I also want to thank Candace Kruttschnitt and Rosemary Gartner, who served as guest editors of the special issue on Gender, Crime, and Criminal Justice, and the contributors to the special issue. The informed discussion in this special issue on several important areas of concern will generate further debate and reflection for some time to come. This special issue also confirms for me that special issues can provide a thematic line of high- quality research in one volume, and I see special issues as an important part of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. I will continue to look to the editorial board of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology to provide ideas for special issues we may pursue in the future. This first issue in Volume 10 contains a set of papers that reflect the diversity of quantitative criminology. The lead article, by Michael Geerken, illustrates the problems of using rap sheets in criminological research and reminds us of deficiencies in official criminal history records. Next, Mark 1 0748-4518/94/010.000107.00/0 ( 1994 Plenum Publishing Corporation