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Qualitative Criminology (QC)

Volume 3, Number 1 (2015)


Welcome to the third volume of the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology. I am pleased to report that the journal is still going strong and manuscripts continue to be submitted on a regular basis. The journal continues to hold its authors to a high standard and as you will note for this issue’s updated analytics, the journal is currently holding a 16.9% acceptance rate. I believe you will see the satisfactory results of maintaining the high standards in this first issue of Volume 3. Lisa Kort-Butler and Michael Killingsworth lead off with a historical analysis of media-crime relationship in criminology textbooks; Kevin Steinmetz looks at how a person becomes a hacker through his ethnographic interviews and participant observation; Danielle Lavin-Loucks and Kristine Levan explore the use of neutralization techniques in state parole hearings using ethnographic observation methods; and Brad Campbell looks at a little known policing phenomenon, the Summer Cop, through his summer conducting participant observation. Each of these pieces contributes to the qualitative body of literature in criminal justice and criminology, while the many book reviews included in this issue also demonstrate additional work in qualitative methods being published.

Editorial

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Editorial
Willard M. Oliver

Articles

Book Reviews

Editors

Editor
Willard M. Oliver – Sam Houston State University

Book Review Editor
Kevin Steinmetz – Sam Houston State University

Associate Editors
Patricia Adler – University of Colorado, Boulder
Peter Adler – University of Denver
Gordon Bazemore – Florida Atlantic University
Fiona Brookman – University of Glamorgan, Wales
Rod Brunson – Rutgers University
Patrick Carr – Rutgers University
Kathy Charmaz – Sonoma State University
J. Heith Copes – University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dean A. Dabney – Georgia State University
Jeff Ferrell – University of Kent & Texas Christian University
Craig Hemmens – Missouri State University
Andrew Hochstetler – Iowa State University
Paul Klenowski – Clarion University
Peter Kraska – Eastern Kentucky University
Nancy E. Marion – University of Akron
Shadd Maruna – Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland
Karen McElrath – Fayetteville State University
Alyce McGovern – University of New South Wales, Australia
J. Mitchell Miller – University of Texas at San Antonio
Jody Miller – Rutgers University
Wilson R. Palacios – University of South Florida
Mark Pogrebin – University of Colorado, Denver
Sveinung Sandberg – University of Oslo
Alberto Testa – Univ. of West London, United Kingdom & Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Richard Tewksbury – University of Louisville
Ronald Weitzer – George Washington University