In this issue, we remember and celebrate eminent Conflict Criminologist Austin Turk. His books Criminality and Legal Order (1969) and Political Criminality: The Defiance and Defense of Authority (1982) were pioneering works that helped reframe definitions of criminality and fuel debate about the influence of power differentials and partisanship in the definition and enforcement of crime. In recent years, Professor Turk turned to the study of terrorism, publishing Examining Political Violence: Studies of Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Internal War (2013; co-edited with David Lowe and Dilip K. Das) which is a notable contribution to the Series, Advances in Police Theory and Practice (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; Dilip K. Das, Editor-in-Chief). Austin provided a brilliant Foreword to the book Policing Global Movement: Tourism, Migration, Human Trafficking, & Terrorism in the IPES-CRC Press Co-Production Series (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2012). In 2005, he guest edited Policing Revolutionary and Secessionist Violence, a Special Issue of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (PPR)-(Vol. 6, No. 2).
The Directors of the International Police Executive Symposium, IPES, www.ipes.info, and the Board of Editors of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, PPR, www.tandfonline.com/gppr, sincerely and gratefully acknowledge Professor Turk’s contribution to the series Advances in Police Theory and Practice, IPES-CRC Press Co-Production Series, and to PPR.
May his great example and dedication to scholarship continue to inspire us for all time to come.