In the editorial in the last issue of Crime and Social Justice, we summarized our experience with four volumes, explained our priorities for the coming year, and discussed the organization of the journal. Some of the points we made were unclear and confusing. We would now like to clarify some issues and comment on recent developments in building a radical criminology network.

First, we gave the impression that the journal collective wants to be the primary motivating force behind the "formation of a union composed of community organizers, progressive criminal justice workers, and students and teachers of criminology." Second, we called for the formation of "collectives" interested in becoming part of a criminology "network" and "sharing in the work of the journal." Third, we published a list of "coordinating editors" without carefully specifying their role and relationship to the journal collective. All these points need some elaboration and clarification.

The journal is produced by a collective that is based in Berkeley together with various decentralized members in Buffalo, Boston, New York, Portland, Oregon, and Santa Barbara. In addition to the collective, there are several persons who "work with" the collective on specific tasks, as well as "contributing editors" who serve as advisers to and supporters of the journal. "Workers with" and "contributing editors" do not have any formal responsibility for the production of the journal. New members are on occasion recruited onto the journal collective and are required to serve an apprenticeship before they are asked to join the journal.

While the journal collective wholeheartedly supports the development of an international radical criminology organization and the creation of collectives in the United States and Canada, we do not at the present have the necessary resources to organize such a program. We welcome and support the development of the Boston and Buffalo collectives, and we are glad to see that the radical criminology newsletter, mentioned in our last editorial, is being produced and distributed (by Jim Brady of the Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.)

While there is considerable overlap between and cooperation among those working on the journal and the formation of an international union, they are organizationally separate and autonomous. The journal collective is unable at this time to provide the leadership necessary for forming such an organization. If such an organization is formed, the role that the journal collective will play within it will depend on its politics and program. It is too premature to make a decision on this issue until there has been much more discussion and debate about the form that such an organization might take We encourage people who are considering the formation of a radical criminology organization to discuss their proposals in the newsletter and in this journal.

Returning to the issue of decentralization that we discussed in our previous editorial, we have taken some steps toward resolving the problems created by our declining base in Berkeley. First, Drew Humphries, a member of the collective in New York, has agreed to coordinate Book Reviews with the support of other collective members on the East Coast. All suggestions for book reviews should be sent directly to her. The journal strongly encourages potential reviewers to contact the book reviews editor to discuss ideas, review topics, and specific books before submitting written drafts. Second, the Buffalo collective has agreed to coordinate issue No. 7 (Winter 1976) up to the production stage. The Berkeley group will continue to be responsible for production and distribution. Issue No. 7 is a theme issue on State Workers and the Criminal Justice System (see the Call for Paper on the inside front cover). Issue No. 7 will be published by the Berkeley collective, and all materials should be submitted by June 1, 1976, for consideration.

The next few months are crucial for the journal with the abolition of the University of California School of Criminology in June 1976. In Berkeley, we will continue to maintain a small collective and to work on improving the production and distribution of the journal. The long-range continuation of the journal, however, depends oil the development of radical criminology centers around the country. With the Buffalo collective taking responsibility for issue No. 7, we begin the decentralization process and hopefully the expansion of the radical criminology movement.