The February 2000 (Vol. 2, No. 2) issue of the Western Criminology Review takes on issues central to the discipline of criminology and criminal justice. "These articles are original works by well-known scholars on theory, methods and practice of the criminal justice system in America," says Patrick Jackson, WCR Editor.
Hiroshi Fukurai addresses the question of the representativeness of grand juries in the new millennium as he provides a detailed examination of the uses of the grand jury in Santa Cruz County, California.
Karen Umemoto and Kimi Mikami use crime mapping techniques to interpret the patterning of hate crimes in Los Angeles County. Their provocative analysis demonstrates that hate crime is a patterned offense related to the specific geographical areas in question. Their use of graphics provides the reader with detailed data to support their findings.
Frank Williams, Marilyn McShane, and Ronald Akers offer a fresh perspective about the meaning of fear of crime to respondents and social scientists and the potential of alternative measures of this concept.
Richard Hil responds to Elliott Currie's discussion in the last issue of the WCR. This is a stimulating debate that the profession of criminology.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Western Criminology Review (ISSN 1096-4886) is the official journal of Western Society of Criminology and located on the world wide web at http://wcr.sonoma.edu. The WCR provides a venue for the discussion of scholarly articles in a variety of areas, including theory, methods, data sources, law, policing, the courts, corrections, the profession, education, and others.
The WCR is a peer reviewed, on-line journal. Guidelines are available at http://wcr.sonoma.edu/submit.html. To submit a manuscript send an e-mail to wcr@sonoma.edu with the attached manuscript.
The journal editor, Patrick Jackson, can be reached at wcr@sonoma.edu or via postal delivery at: WCR, Sonoma State University, Stevenson 2084, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Phone: (707) 664.2126.
JOURNAL CONTENTS
Western Criminology Review, Volume 2, No. 2 (February, 2000)
- Hiroshi Fukurai, "Where Did Hispanic Jurors Go? Racial and Ethnic Disenfranchisement in the Grand Jury and the Search for Justice"
- Karen Umemoto and C. Kimi Mikami, "A Profile of Race-Bias Hate Crime in Los Angeles County"
- Frank P. Williams, Marilyn D. McShane, and Ronald L. Akers, "Worry About Victimization: An Alternative and Reliable Measure for Fear of Crime"
- Richard Hil, Toward A More "Progressive" Criminology? A Rejoinder to Elliott Currie
- Elliott Currie responds
Western Criminology Review, Volume 2, No. 1 (June, 1999)
- Elliott Currie, "Reflections on Crime and Criminology at the Millenium"
- Joel Donahoe, "The Changing Role of Victim Impact Evidence in Capital Cases"
- Matthew B. Robinson, "What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Perceptions and Misconceptions of Harmful Behaviors Among Criminology and Criminal Justice Students"
- Barbara Farrell and Joseph Franco, "The Role of the Auditor in the Prevention and Detection of Business Fraud: SAS No. 82"
LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION
Recommend the Western Criminology Review to your librarian for cataloguing. The URL is http://wcr.sonoma.edu. Copyright rules for individuals and libraries are at http://wcr.sonoma.edu/copyright.html. E-mail the editor with questions at wcr@sonoma.edu.
