Editorial

摘要

The idea for this special issue arose from a conversation with someone after I had invited them to review a manuscript submitted to the journal. Though they had relevant expertise to review the submission, they were unfamiliar with the Journal, but became interested in what it covered. An outcome of the conversation was the idea for a special issue devoted to justice records, in particular aspects of managing them across national boundaries. I'm delighted it has come to fruition. This issue demonstrates our continued commitment to pushing boundaries. A quick search of the Journal reveals only a handful of articles relating to justice records have been published in previous volumes and all of them written by records professionals. In this issue, with one exception, the articles have been contributed by people who are outside the records management discipline and are academics, researchers or professionals. They are based in universities, public sector law enforcement bodies such as Europol and an independent scientific research. They span four different countries in two continents, and one paper sets a record for the number of co-authors -14.