Volume 3, Number 2 (2015)

Welcome to the second issue of the third volume of the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, and also my last issue as editor. Four years ago, I was given the opportunity by the president and board of the Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice to start up a new association journal and they liked my idea of a qualitative methods journal that would appeal to not only criminal justice, but to criminology as well. I began putting together an editorial board and was overwhelmed by the positive support I received regarding my ideas for the journal. That made everything else simply fall into place. It has been a great experience and I hope it has made a significant contribution to, first and foremost, qualitative research, and secondly to the disciplines of criminal justice and criminology.