Editorial

By Thomas Gilly

In this issue of our journal we have collected four papers. The papers we have collected provide altogether for a focus on crime and globalization and crime and culture.

“Cyber Stalking: A Global Menace in the Information Super Highwaw”, by K. Jaishankar and V. Uma Sankary provides for an in – depth-study of cyber-crime. It points at the inherent dilemmas of global information and deviance. The paper focuses on the typology of cyber stalking, typology of perpetrators and victims and research in cyber stalking.

“Responding to Ethnic Diversity in Juvenile Justice in Victoria, Australia – Key Issues of Designing Appropriate Responses” by Michelle Jeffrey is a major contribution to an issue that came rapidly to the fore of the criminal justice debate. The author discusses several aspects of a much wider inquiry into ethnicity and juvenile justice. Issues raised in this paper have emerged from current PhD research into juvenile justice and ethnicity. The paper attempts to investigate over-representation of particular groups of ethnic minority within the juvenile justice system in Australia. Although it is the state of Victoria which constitutes the focus of Jeffrey’s research, all the evidence suggests that the issue is highly relevant to international comparative research on segregation in the criminal justice system.

The paper is highly relevant to social workers, prison administrations and academics.

Yakov Gilinskiy’s paper is central to the .the understanding and to the explanation of human trafficking in a context of crime globalization. The paper provides for a very detailed analysis of human safety and security in a society where human being is continuously at risk. Although the Russian risk - society is central to this paper, the relevance of globalization to the various forms of human receives strong consideration. Human trafficking is the focal centre of global social and economic problems

As for me, in “At the Crossroad among crime, norms and values” I pick up some ideas that are central to the “call for a return of traditional values”. The nature of the complex relation between prescriptive and descriptive norms, values and crime is addressed.

I am focusing on the impact of culture upon norms and values and vice-versa. The question whether and to which degree values can explain crime is at the heart of my paper. Value adjustment, terrorism, death-penalty, religion and crime are the issues to be discussed in this paper.

The relevance of one of the major texts in Jewish religious literature to crime commitment and crime prevention is one of the paper’s key-issues.

I do not want to miss the opportunity to invite our readers to visit the ERCES home web-site

(http://www.erces.com/indx.htm). A new link “ News from Saratov” is to be discovered. In addition we invite our readers to view a nex power-point we have collected for our “Crime News and Events” series.

Trends in Crime in Russia's Black Sea Region in 2003-2004 by Professor Dr. Natalia Lopashenko Saratov Center, Russia, provides our readers with an highly relevant and extremely detailed report on crime in Russia’s Black Sea Region.

These innovations are to be developed in the future. They are rooted in the brand new network of scientific cooperation and exchange that has been set up by virtue of agreement between Saratov Center for the Study of Crime and Corroption (STRACC), Saratov, Russia and ERCES.

From now on it is possible to call the Russian translation of all relevant ERCES information and announcements from Saratov Center’s web-site http://sartraccc.sgap.ru./. In turn, our Home page provides our ERCES Online Journal readers with the English version of all relevant STRACC information and announcements.

An innovative editorial program is to be developed very soon. It consists of the Russian/ English translation of ERCES Journal paper-abstracts/ STRACC research reports and their online publication by STRACC and by ERCES.