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11 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (1995)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc11 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1995 From the Editor The first issue of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology appeared in March of 1985. James Alan Fox, the founder and first editor, established the Journal of Quantitative Criminology to provide a needed forum to bring together empirical and methodological advances across a variety of disciplines (Fox, 1985, p. 1). Since the inaugural issue, the Journal has pub- lished over 150 articles and research notes dealing with a wide range of topics in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. Indeed, as Fox hoped in his introductory statement, over the last 10 years the Journal of Quantita- tive Criminology has published in each issue a mix of papers that make substantive contributions with those that assume a more methodological posture (Fox, 1985, p. 1). Much like the inaugural issue, the first issue of Volume 11 contains a set of papers that make both a substantive and methodological contribution to criminological research. Moreover, these articles reflect the diversity of quantitative criminology. The lead article, by Joel Garner, Jeffrey Fagan, and Christopher Maxwell, revisits the previously published reports from seven experiments funded by the National Institute of Justice to address whether or not arrest is an effective deterrent to misdemeanor spouse assault. This article illustrates the complexity of linking research findings to policy and raises important questions as to how research programs like the Spouse Assault Replication Program should be organized in the future. In the second article, from an economist's perspective, Liliana Pezzin examines the decision to terminate a criminal career using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. In the next article, Derral Cheatwood analyzes the effects of weather on homicide in the city of Baltimore. Furthermore, Cheatwood offers an interesting discussion of several explanations of the effect of weather on criminal behavior. In the fourth paper in this issue, Robert Harlow, John Darley, and Paul Robinson adopt. a psychophysical scaling approach to estimate community perceptions of the severity of intermediate penal sanctions. Finally, the issue ends with a review essay by Jeffrey Roth that focuses on two recent books-Analysing Offending: Data, Models, and Inter- pretation by Roger Tarling and Criminal Incapacitation by William Spelman. I believe that these books and the review essay will be of interest to readers 1 0748-4518/95/0300-0001$07.50/0 (1995 Plenum Publishing Corporation