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From the Editor’s desk

Welcome to Volume 25, No. 1 for the New Year 2012. As you may note we have a new Associate Editor LiYing Li who is replacing George Higgins who has been one of our Associate Editors ‘Forever’. George has accepted a position as an Editor for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and though he will be missed, we wish him the best in his new position. He brings a great deal of knowledge and expertise to this position and we know he will thrive. LiYing Li is both the Chair and Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado. She has already reviewed articles and will be an asset to this journal. We welcome her. Our first article by Petter Gottschalk, Norwegian School of Management, Nydalsveien, Oslo, Norway and Morten Espen Ørn from the Hordaland Police District in Bergen, Norway discusses ‘Crime Mapping in Police Value Shops: the Pocket Man Case of Child Sex Abuse’. The authors point out that it took the Norwegian police 32 years to capture the Pocket Man. He was responsible for more than 100 sexual-abuse cases over that same period of time. Their article presents a study of police investigations of abuse. Each value shop activity had serious deficiencies in the investigations of pocket man case incidents, with the first step being the most critical. The next article, ‘Changing Minds: The Effect of Course and Teaching Approach on Attitudes Toward the Legal System’ by Evelyn M. Maeder of Carleton University and Cindy E. Laub from the United States Air Force Academy. These authors talk about prior research which examined the influence of courses on attitude change, while some has established that psychology and law courses may increase cynicism toward the legal system. This current research sought to determine the relationships among majors of study, political orientation, and attitudes toward the legal system. What is demonstrated by their results is that the majors of study and political orientation were related to legal attitudes. ‘Incarceration or Community Placement: Examining the Sentences of Cybercriminals’, by Catherine D. Marcum, George E. Higgins and Richard Tewksbury look toward filling in the gap of our understanding of correlate as to whether a cybercrime conviction leads to prison or community corrections. They point out that available legal responses to cybercrimes are no different than those available for other types of felony offenses. Brian F. Kingshott in his manuscript, ‘Violence in Educational Establishments: Cause, Effect and Response’, writes about how crisis situations in educational establishments may emerge along a continuum from natural disasters to man-made threats such as school shootings, hostage taking and terrorism threats. There appears Criminal Justice Studies Vol. 25, No. 1, March 2012, 1–2