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7 Punishment & Soc'y 5 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/punscty7 and id is 1 raw text is: Copyright @ SAGE Publications LondonThousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi. www.sagepu blication s.com 1462-4745; Vol 7(1): 5 DOI: 10.1177/1462474505048128 PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY Letter from the new editors MALCOLM M. FEELEY AND JONATHAN SIMON University of California, Berkeley, USA With this issue, we assume the editorship of Punishment & Society. We realize that we have big shoes to fill. Founding editor, David Garland, did the impossible by estab- lishing a journal that with its very first volume defined an emerging body of scholar- ship and became its most distinguished and authoritative forum. His successor Richard Sparks continued that tradition while reaching out to an increasingly diverse set of authors and topics. Under this editorial leadership, combined with strong support from SAGE, the journal has continued to succeed and grow by any measure that one might imagine. Most recently it was selected for inclusion in the prestigious social science citation index. We accept the challenge to build on this success. We are mindful that the journal moves from Keele to Berkeley at a time when American political hegemony and penal practices are generating global controversy. The horrifying images from Abu Ghraib remind us that American penal excesses are not simply a matter of domestic policy but are now intertwined with the fate of the international legal order and the global struggle for an era of human rights. We commit ourselves to seeing that Punishment & Society stays at the forefront of research, criticism and debate about these developments. At the same time we want to continue the work of our predecessors to make this a truly 'international' journal of penology, bringing to readers the broadest possible range of scholarship on penality from around the world. Towards this end we plan an aggres- sive campaign to solicit articles from throughout the world by attending conferences and organizing special issues that will engage scholars and topics beyond the North Atlantic orbit, including Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.