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
Articles
From Burlesque to Grand Theft Auto: An Historical Analysis of the Treatment of the Media-Crime Relationship in Criminology Texts
Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Michael Killingsworth
Becoming a Hacker: Demographic Characteristics and Developmental Factors
Kevin F. Steinmetz
“Were You Drunk at the Time?”: The Influence of Parole Boards on Accounts and Neutralization Techniques in State Parole Hearings
Danielle Lavin-Loucks and Kristine Levan
Book Reviews
Rachel Zimmer Schneider, Battered Women Doing Time: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System
Cortney A. Franklin
Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Dzhamilia Makashova
Nickie D. Phillips & Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Jordan E. Mazurek
Sutherland, Edwin H., The Professional Thief
Jurg Gerber
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