Journal Editors

Brian E. Bride

Brian Bride is Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at Georgia State University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of behavioral health care, primary and secondary traumatic stress, health services research, HIV/AIDS, and workforce well-being. Brian E. Bride’s Bio

W. Bartley Hildreth

Bart Hildreth joined the faculty in July 2009. Previously, at Wichita State University, Hildreth was the Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance with joint appointments in the public administration faculty of the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs and the finance faculty of the W. Frank Barton School of Business. Hildreth has served as interim dean of the Barton School of Business and dean of the Andrew Young School. W. Bartley Hildreth’s Bio

The Municipal Finance Journal is the only professional journal devoted to municipal securities and state and local financing. Published quarterly since 1982, the MFJ provides timely analysis, cutting-edge research and creative ideas on public securities, tax-exempt bonds, infrastructure financing and state and local finance. Visit the journal website

Joshua Hinkle

Joshua Hinkle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. His research interests include evidence-based policing, crime and place, the disorder-crime nexus and fear of crime. View Joshua Hinkle’s Bio.

Criminal Justice Review (CJR), a peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a scholarly journal dedicated to presenting a broad perspective on criminal justice issues within the domestic United States. CJR provides a forum for social scientists to report research findings for informed policy making with respect to crime and justice through innovative and advanced methodologies and can feature local, state, or national concerns. Visit the journal website.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez is the Regents Professor in the Department of Economics and the Director of the International Center of Public Policy at Georgia State University. Martinez-Vazquez’s principal interest are in public sector economics. His expertise in fiscal decentralization, taxation and fiscal management has led to consulting assignments with federal agencies and state governments in the United States and over 60 countries. Martinez-Vazquez has directed two notable projects, the $20 million USAID Fiscal Reform Project in the Russian Federation (1997-2000) and the $1 million World Bank Tax Policy Review Project in Pakistan (2008-2009). Jorge Martinez-Vazquez’s Bio

Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics seeks to publish original and innovative research. Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics is published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IEF). The IEF, in accordance with its assigned functions, is a center for training, research, documentation and publishing. Its institutional mission is to create and structure points for reflection and research, both internal and external, connecting to the needs of Inland Revenue and of society. To do this, it publishes extensively in order to consolidate the different existing collections of books and to enhance the dissemination of the research carried out within or with the help of this Institute. Visit the journal website

Scott Jacques

Scott Jacques is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2010.  His research focuses on crimes against drug dealers, the offenders’ perspective more broadly, and theorizing method. He has interviewed hundreds of active offenders in the United States and the Netherlands, including drug sellers, robbers, and shoplifters. His coauthored book is Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers (University of Chicago Press). His work has been published in journals such as Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, The International Journal of Drug Policy, The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Theoretical Criminology. He also serves as Editor of The International Criminal Justice Review. Scott Jacques bio.

International Criminal Justice Review (ICJR) publishes peer-reviewed research on crime and justice across the globe. Since the journal’s inception, it maintains a strong interest in cross-national studies. Moving forward, the journal is also particularly interested in publishing research on environmental criminology, immigration and crime, drugs/alcohol and crime, as well as research based on ethnographic or innovative methods. View the journal website.

…Qualitative…Criminology (QC) is short for The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, a diamond open access journal: free to read and publish in. It publishes peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary research on making laws, breaking them, and reacting to that. Publications inform criminological concepts, theories, methods, policies, and practices. View the journal website.

John C. Thomas

With three books and more than fifty articles in print, John Thomas is known internationally for his research on various aspects of public management and public policy.  Much of that research focuses on how citizens connect with their governments and how those connections can be improved. John C. Thomas’ Bio

The American Review of Public Administration (ARPA), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, is one of the elite scholarly journals in public administration and public affairs. ARPA focuses on public administration broadly defined, publishing scholarship on all aspects of the field, including such areas as organization and management studies, program and performance evaluation, and budgeting and financial management, network governance, public involvement and public service motivation. Although rooted in U.S. public administration, ARPA also carries research from international and comparative settings. Visit the journal website

Sally Wallace

Sally Wallace is the Dean of the Andrew Young School and a Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. Wallace’s principal interests are federal, state, local and international taxation and analysis and intergovernmental fiscal relations. Sally Wallace’s Bio

International Tax and Public Finance serve as an outlet for first-rate original research on both theoretical and empirical aspects of fiscal policy, broadly interpreted to include expenditure and financing policies. A special emphasis is on the open economy or, more generally, inter-jurisdictional issues: the interaction of policies across jurisdictions and the effects of those policies on economic (and political economy) outcomes. This international/inter-jurisdictional focus is not, however, an exclusive one: high-quality contributions in any area of public finance (e.g., single-country tax reform analysis) will also be welcome. Visit the journal website

Tax Notes is a collection of publications by Tax Analysts, a non-profit tax publisher. Tax Notes’ news publications provide comprehensive but impartial coverage of tax news, while Tax Notes’ commentary publications contribute spirited and personable voices to the conversation and debate around the understanding and application of tax policy. Visit the journal website

Deborah Whitley

Dr. Deborah Whitley is the Co-director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and Associate Director for Project Healthy Grandparents (PHG), a university sponsored program providing health and social support services to grandparents raising grandchildren in the Atlanta community. Deborah Whitley’s Bio

GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy is the first online peer-review journal to promote the status of grandparent-headed families through high quality research and practice, which informs sound policy. Visit the journal website