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Acknowledgements

Introduction

European issues on crime and crime control

Globalisation and criminal justice trends in Italy / David Nelken

History of crime and criminal justice in Europe / Xavier Rousseaux

Is there such a thing as a European crime control policy? / Klára Kerezsi

Surveys on victimisation and insecurity in Europe : some issues / Renée Zauberman

Criminal law and human rights : a paradoxical relationship / Françoise Tulkens, Michel van de Kerchove

Variations in crime : description and explanations

It is not just the economy : towards an alternative explanation of post World War II crime trends in the Western Europe / Jan van Dijk

State crime : the European experience / Susanne Karstedt

Organised and transnational crime in Europe / Vincenzo Ruggiero

Collective criminalization of Rome in Central and Eastern Europe : social causes, circumstances, consequences / Margit Feischmidt, Kristóf Szombati, Peter Szuhay

Gender and crime in Europe / Loraine Gelsthorpe, Elena Larrauri

The informal economy in Europe / Dominique Boels, Antoinette Verhage, Paul Ponsaers

Place, space, and urban (in)security / Sophie Body-Gendrot

Variations in institutional responses and possible explanations

Trust the justice and the legitimacy of legal authorities : topline findings from a European comparative study / Mike Hough, Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford

Media and crime: a comparative analysis of crime news in the UK, norway and Italy / Rinella Cere, Yvonne Jewkes, Thomas Ugelvik

Political economy and penal systems / Michael Cavadino, James Dignan

Imprisonment and penal demands : exploring the dimensions and drivers of systemic and attitudinal punitivity / Tapio Lappi-Seppälä

Changing definitions of the criminal law in Germany in late modernity / Frtiz Sack, Christian Schlepper

Police and policing in Europe / René Lévy

Crime prevention and public safety in Europe : challenges for comparative criminology / Adam Edwards, Gordon Hughes, Nicholas Lord

Sentencing / Sonja Snacken, Dirk van Zyl Smit, Kristel Beyens

Community sanctions / Ioan Durnescu

Punishment : prisons / Sonja Snacken, Aline Bauwens, Dirk van Zyl Smit, Hanne Tournel, Rudy Machiels

Juvenile justice in Europe : between continuity and change / Francis Bailleau, Yves Cartuyvels

Legislating drugs : European drug policies or drug policies in Europe? / Krysztof Krajewski

The borders of the European Union and the processes of criminalization of migrants / Stefano Caneppele

The terrorist threat before and after 9/11 : what has changed in Europe / Dario Melossi

Practices and modes of transatlantic data processing : from sorting countries to sorting individuals / Rocco Bellanova and Paul De Hert

Index.

Criminology > Europe > Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Criminal justice, Administration of > Europe > Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Criminal law > Europe > Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Transnational crime > Europe > Handbooks, manuals, etc.