A WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS


A WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS 
 

 
Dear Readers,  
 

We take great pleasure in welcoming you to our new journal, International Journal 
of Child, Youth and Family Studies. We have created this publication with the intention 
of providing a space for the generation of knowledge, dialogue, critique, debate, and 
collaboration among an international community of child, youth, family and community 
practitioners and scholars. The immediacy of e-based publication makes it possible for us 
all to be fully connected to each other and to developments in our field and to be directly 
involved in ongoing knowledge construction. Our journal is independent of corporate 
demands and the overlay of profit-making and profit-taking and we can therefore invite 
you to be full participants in the creative process that we are undertaking together.   
 

Our vision is to create a high-quality publication that will be relevant, challenging, 
thought-provoking, and inclusive of a diverse range of voices and perspectives, including 
graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, policy-makers, and child, youth 
and family serving practitioners. We welcome original research, theoretical contributions, 
reviews of the literature, critical commentaries, case studies, book reviews, and works-in-
progress.   
 

We are extremely pleased that our inaugural journal offering: International Journal 
of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Volume One, Number One and Number Two, edited 
by Guest Editors, Michel Vallée and Tullio Caputo from Carleton University’s 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will appear simultaneously as two special 
electronic issues and a hard copy book entitled, Reflecting on Crime Prevention and 
Youth Justice in Canada. The book can be ordered directly from our web site upon the 
electronic publication of both journal issues. It is our intention from time to time, to offer 
guest edited special issues as books as well as journal offerings. We do this in order to 
support access and diversity in the ever narrowing corporatized world of academic 
publication. 
 

We are delighted that you are joining us as readers and hope you will also join us as 
contributors.   
 
Sibylle Artz, Ph.D 
 
Jennifer White, Ed.D