Crime, Horror and

MoralityRebecca James, James McLeish and Abby

Whittall

OUR CHOSEN SOURCESJournals and Websites

Law, Crime and History

About the Journal:

• Part of SOLON

• The managing editor is Samantha Pegg

• Originally Crimes and Misdemeanours; Deviance

and the law in historical perspective

• Interdisciplinary journal which looks at the law

and crime from a variety of different perspectives

which is reflected in the group who are on the

editorial board

Journal for Genocide

Research

About the Journal

• Francis and Taylor Online

• Published by Routledge

• Senior Editor is A. Dirk Moses

• Official journal of the International Network of

Genocide Scholars

• The organisation itself professes impartiality

New Criminal Law Review

About the Journal:

• New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

• Published by University of California Press, and online by Jstor

• The editor-in-chief is Roger J. R. Levesque

• Previously Buffalo Criminal Law Review

• associate editors are found from the University of London, of Toronto, of Zurich and of Melbourne emphasising its ‘international’ range.

• Focused on crime and punishment

The Old Bailey Online

About the Website:

• Project to get proceedings online

• Published by HRI Online Publications

• Project manager: Dr Sharon Howard

• Used by multiple academics for multiple journals

• Funded by Arts and Humanities Research

Council (in 2000 and 2005), the Big Lottery

Fund (2001) and the Economic and Social

Research Council

Nuremberg Trials Project

About the website

• Part of the Harvard Law School Library

• The target audience of this site is varied

• Site is incomplete

• Calling for funding; the last time that the Harvard

Law School Library updated the collection was

in 2011.

OLD AND NEW ISSUESThe Journals

Law, Crime and History

• New title solidified identity

• Increase in the breadth of articles, both in terms of content and types of articles

• Terrorism in Australia to The Historical Foundations of the Adversarial Criminal Defence Lawyer

• Street Disorder in the Metropolis to Women, Petty Crime and Power in Later Sixteenth Century Aberdeen

• Size increased seriously

Journal for Genocide

Research

• Started with a lot to do with the Holocaust

• Articles that handle the legal issues of genocide

have grown in quantity recently.

• reveal an interest in looking closer at areas that

are less ‘mainstream’ in discussions of genocide.

• Thinking about what constitutes as a genocide

• Missing articles on Western related genocides

New Criminal Law Review

• Strong themes lead each issue

• First focused heavily on the federal criminal code

• Renamed form has an emphasis on the ‘new’ -

pushing for innovation

• They expand their horizons from solely law

• Subjects such as the death penalty or the prison

system recur, but are kept up to date

• Has maintained its place as a current and

pioneering journal