#11603. “Commentary to “How International Are the Top Ten International Journals of Criminology and Criminal Justice?” by Ken Pease”

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Abstract:
The biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) seeks to account for the existence of diverse human languages. Somewhere along the line, the English seem to have cheated. Those aspiring to an academic career born with English as their first language enjoy a very substantial advantage over equally or more talented people with a different linguistic heritage. English is the lingua franca of science discourse. The primacy of English lies at the heart of the problems which the Faraldo-Cabana paper (hereinafter F-C) identifies. That paper samples journals which claim to be international and shows how far they typically fall short of justifying that claim. F-C points out that national borders are of little importance to many of the most pressing crime problems. It is crucial that an international approach be fostered. Urgent international crime problems such as cyber warfare, trafficking of people, and trade in endangered species products cannot be confronted with scholarship based on intra-national analyses. Accordingly, journals should be truly international or cease to make the claim that they are.
Keywords:
English; lingua franca; international crime problems; journals; languages

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