Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crime, justice, and societies. The social nature of crime and deviance / Colin Sumner -- Theories of social control and the state between American and European shores / Dario Melossi -- Criminal justice process and war on crime / Markus Dirk Dubber -- Criminology, genocide, and modernity : remarks on the companion that criminology ignored / Wayne Morrison. Juvenile delinquency and justice for youth. The criminologists' gang / Jack Katz and Curtis Jackson-Jacobs -- Youth crime and crime control in contemporary Japan / Mark Fenwick -- Consumer culture and crime in late modernity / Keith J. Hayward -- The politics of youth crime and justice in South Africa / Elrena van der Spuy, Wilfried Scharf, and Jeffrey Lever. Punishment and its alternatives. Penal policies and contemporary politics / Pat O'Malley -- Beyond bricks, bars, and barbed wire : the genesis and proliferation of alternatives to incarceration in the United States / Barry R. Holman and Robert A. Brown -- Rehabilitation : an assessment of theory and research / Mark W. Lipsey, Nana A. Landenberger, and Gabrielle L. Chapman -- Female punishment : from patriarchy to backlash? / Laureen Snider. Gender and the masculinity of crime. Beyond bad girls : feminist perspectives on female offending / Meda Chesney-Lind -- Managing "men's violence" in the criminological arena / Adrian Howe -- Masculinities and crime : rethinking the "man question"? / Richard Collier -- "Abominable and detestable" : understanding homophobia and the criminalization of sodomy / Mary Bernstein -- The gendering and racializing of criminalized others / Elizabeth Comack. Capital, power, and crime. White-collar crime / Amedeo Cottino -- "Dance your anger and your joys" : multinational corporations, power, "crime" / Frank Pearce and Steve Tombs -- Globalization and the illicit drugs trade in Hong Kong / K. Joe Laidler -- Trafficking in human beings and related crimes in West and Central Africa / Alexis A. Aronowitz and Monika Peruffo. Globalization, crime, and information. Globality, glocalization, and private policing : a Caribbean case study / Maureen Cain -- The rise of the surveillant state in times of globalization / Thomas Mathiesen -- The politics of crime statistics / William J. Chambliss -- Two realities of police communication / Aaron Doyle and Richard Ericson -- Hacktivism : resistance is fertile? / Paul A. Taylor.