Editorial: new directions for Behavioral Sciences and the Law

✍ Scribed by Alan J. Tomkins

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-3936
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199901/03)17:1<i::aid-bsl343>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

Ewing, Alan Felthous, and I are pleased to announce some new directions for the journal beginning in 1999. The new directions represent an expansion of what BS&L has to oer its readership.

The ®rst change has to do with numbers. Volume 17 will include ®ve issues, one more than we have oered in the past. This change is due to the increased number and quality of submissions we have had in the past two years. We now have enough publishable submissions so that the increase is not only warranted, it is desirable. The extra issue will be a ``Current Perspectives on Behavioral Sciences and the Law'' and it will contain Research Reports, Special Perspectives, and other kinds of articles (see below) that address up-to-date data and views on law and behavioral science topics. The increased number of issues also will allow us to be quicker in getting Research Reports, Special Perspectives, and other articles into print than we sometimes have been able to in the past.

The second change has to do with the journal's aims and scopes. Although we still will specialize in the interface between mental health and law and publish manuscripts on virtually any topic in the broad, behavioral science and law area, we want to expand our coverage so that it regularly includes more than US and Canadian perspectives. We are making concerted eorts to solicit and publish manuscripts from authors outside of the US and Canada. We have appointed four international editors who will have the responsibility of soliciting and processing manuscripts from various regions throughout the world.