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20 Punishment & Soc'y 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/punscty20 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Punishment & Society 2018, Vol. 20(I) 3-7 @ The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: anniversary special issuesagepub.co.u/journalsPerissions.nav DOI: 10. 1177/1462474517741844 journals.sagepub.com/home/pun *SAGE Mona Lynch University of California, USA Kelly Hannah-Moffat University of Toronto, Canada The first issue of Punishment & Society was published in 1999, at a time when punitive politics and populism was reaching an apex globally, and when estab- lished penal logics were being supplanted by new ones. In his inaugural editorial, founding editor David Garland (1999: 5) characterized punishment as one of the most pressing problems of our age, which called for a distinct intellectual outlet for scholarship on punishment. According to Garland (1999: 8), the new centrality of penal politics and the changing configuration of the field, togeth- er with the growth over the last two decades of a vigorous and impressive body of new penological scholarship made it seem timely and important to establish a forum for this kind of discussion and debate. With this declaration, Volume 1, Issue 1 of Punishment & Society was launched. The journal has gone on to become the premiere international publication on punishment and penal control. As its current editors, we also consider Punishment & Society to be the manifestation of an immensely important and generative field of intellectual inquiry. This special issue commemorates the beginning of Punishment & Society's 20th year and was conceived with several goals in mind. The first was to reflect upon and celebrate the past two decades of scholarship in the field, including what has been published in this journal. More importantly, though, we wanted to survey the landscape to critically assess what we might have missed. We were fortunate to have the roster of former Punishment & Society editors contribute to this endeavor. After selecting from proposed submissions, the group of editors and authors met Corresponding author: Mona Lynch, Criminology, Law & Society, School of Law, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. Email: lynchm@uci.edu