Text Box: From the Editors... Text Box: This issue is the ninth and final edition of our editorship. We hope that you have found the newsletter to be thoughtful and stimulating these past three years. Our goal was to build on the history of the newsletter for publishing intelligent commentary on a wide variety of issues and from a wide variety of critical perspectives. In addition, we wanted to make the newsletter more international, if not global, than it had been previously. Toward that end, we solicited and encouraged the submissions of pieces from “down under,” the Far East, Eastern and Western Europe, and South America. Consistent with our “internationalization program,” the final issue of the editorship includes contributions from Great Britain, Canada, and Japan. Adam Edwards shares from his report and remarks on transnational crime prepared for the United Nation’s Tenth Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, held in Vienna, this past April. Matthew Yeager, also in attendance at the meetings as an “expert observer,” shares his impressions and critique of the Congress. David Potter and Stephen Richards offer their thoughts and suggestions on the exportation of critical criminology, in response to articles from the last issue. In this edition, we also hear from Ray Michalowski, Marty Schwartz, Steve Russell, Ellen Leichtman, and Bruce Arrigo. They continue the conversation that occurred over the Division’s listserve about the status of critical scholarship and publication. In a related piece on critical scholarship, Richard Wright reports on the upcoming Critical Criminology sessions at the 2000 ASC meetings in San Francisco, especially in the context of the intersections of class, gender, and race. Finally, in a similar vein, Mick Hallett interviews Hal Pepinsky on peacemaking, self-control, ritualistic abuse, and more. In turning over the editorial duties and chores to the next group of editors, we wish them well and the very best. We also call upon our membership to make their jobs lighter by taking the time to write from time to time. Finally, we would like to thank the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at EMU for the paper, the ink, the high speed duplicator, and the occasional work study student. Thanks also to the many authors who volunteered manuscripts and helped this newsletter come together as it does. Text Box: Table of Contents Richard A. Wright A Detour Toward the Intersection of Class, Gender, & Race? 8 Critical Criminology Listserve Critical Criminology and the Mainstream: Issues in Publishing Critical Scholarship, Part 2 10 Matthew G. Yeager Text Box: Keeping the World Safe for Democracy 14 David Potter Stephen C. Richards Exporting Critical Criminology Across National Boundaries 16 Mick Hallett An Interview with Hal Pepinsky 18 New Newsletter Editors 20 Text Box: The Critical Criminology Homepage is maintained by Jim Thomas. It contains more information about the division along with links to a wide variety of data, current statistics, legal resources, political writings, teaching and mentoring information, and the Division’s parent organization — The American Society of Criminology. http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/ Division membership is available through Sarah Hall at the American Society of Criminology: 1314 Kinnear Rd., Suite 214 Columbus, OH 43212. (There’s also a membership form reprinted on p 21.) Subscription to the newsletter for non-members is $10 yearly, available from Sarah, who also handles information about back issues. Text Box: Please direct future articles and enquiries about the newsletter to the new editorial collective: Barbara Sims, Penn State Mary Bosworth, Fordham University Michael O. Maume, Ohio University Rick Matthews, Ohio University Full contact information is provided on the back page of the current newsletter.