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17 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc17 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2001 Editor's Note This issue marks the formal beginning of my editorship of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.Michael Maltz was enormously helpful in mov- ing the journal from Chicago to Albany, and he left me with a backlog of strong contributions that will fill the next several issues. I thank Mike greatly for his generosity and continuing support. I also thank David Forde, Joan McCord, Raymond Paternoster, and David Weisburd for their work as associate editors during Mike's term, and Alan Lizotte and Colin Loftin for agreeing to undertake those responsibilities for me. Beginning with its first issue, James Alan Fox helped place JQC among the major journals in criminology and criminal justice. His successors, John Laub and Michael Maltz, continued the journal on the path of excellence that Fox had set. My goal as editor is to carry on the tradition of quality established by my predecessors. In this, I will be guided by the expertise and dedication of JQC's editorial board and reviewers. As have previous editors, I believe that the mission of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology is to publish the best empirical scholarship in the area of criminology and criminal justice. This encompasses papers with cut- ting-edge analytic techniques, but it also includes articles that apply more common methods to important substantive issues. The journal's distinctive feature is its emphasis on quantitative research, and it welcomes all work that seeks to develop a better empirical understanding of crime and related topics. David McDowall Editor 1 0748-4518/01/0300-0001$19.50/0 © 2001 Plenum Publishing Corporation