Internationalization, Inclusion, Integrity, and Impact: Reflections on the 2018–2022 Editorial Term*

With the last issue of 2022 (December) now in production, the current editorial leadership team concludes our term having accomplished the majority of goals outlined for the journal in the 2017 application for editorship (Holtfreter, 2018). In this final editorial introduction, we reflect on Feminist Criminology’s position as a leading journal on gender and crime, with a special focus on the key milestones advanced during our editorial term. We also discuss editorial processes and best practices, including Feminist Criminology’s membership in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which we joined in 2019 at the recommendation of Sally Simpson, thenPresident of the American Society of Criminology who also served on our editorial board. Let us elaborate. Throughout this term, our approach to leading the journal has been informed by the vision that articles published in Feminist Criminology should contribute in at least one of three ways (Holtfreter, 2018). First, they should guide future empirical research or theoretical development, either by testing theory directly, integrating existing theory, or proposing new theory. A second important quality for articles published in Feminist