The current Editor is Professor Geoffrey Pearson and membership of the Board is listed on the back page. It remains the leading English-language journal in its field published outside the United States. Membership Prizes Membership of the Centre is open to anyone who supports its values. Members receive the Centre's quarterly magazine Criminal Justice Matters and members' Bulletin, as well as invitations to the Eve Saville Memorial Lecture and Annual General Meeting and advance notice of the Centre's conferences, visits and seminars. Individual members of CCJS include judges, probation officers, criminologists, youth workers, lawyers, police officers and members of prison staff.
Students are able to join at a special low rate.
The winners are the Birkbeck student deemed to have shown the best overall performance on the Certificate and Diploma courses for Criminology and the King's College Law School student who completed the best assessed long essay in the Law School's criminology and criminal justice option for undergraduates. The membership fee depends upon the size of the organisation, and organisational members receive multiple copies of CJM and member discounts on the cost of conference places for all staff. Organisational members include police services, probation services and prisons. This year the Centre introduced a new low organisational membership rate for small voluntary sector organisations to enable them to enjoy CCJS member benefits. The prize has been known, since its inception, as the BJC Prize.