The Blackwell Companion to Criminology

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Description
This has been a mammoth enterprise and I am grateful to the contributors for editing. Considering they are a distinguished bunch, and therefore very busy, their commitment and patience reflect the altruism for which academics rarely who were to write on ethnicity, but this Companion intends to be around for a set credit. Of course, some were not able to join us, in fact a whole contingent while so there will be future opportunities for growth. Sadly, Rosa del Olmo and Sue Lees died during the early stages of the book and we miss their respective contributions on Latin America and the delinquency of girls. A project like this is a labor of love, so I am grateful to Susan Rabinowitz at Blackwell USA for inviting me to pull the collection together, my old friend Bill Chambliss for assistance with US matters, my wife, Pat, for her constant encouragement, and, especially, Ken Provencher, Blackwell's manager for this project, for his unfailing understanding and good cheer. The shape of this collection of essays reflects some choices. Criminology is far too vast to be compressed, however selectively, into one volume. From the outset, I have aimed primarily at high quality and a cutting edge with a global standpoint. The most fundamental feature of the volume is an international range of expert contributors, around a base of essays from North America, who  tackle their subject matter from a global perspective, either in the sense of reviewing their fields or locating crime issues within international debates and historical parameters. My intention was not to be comprehensive but to deliver a volume that would stimulate development within criminology across the globe.
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Table of Contents
Part I Crime, Justice, And Societies
1 : The Social Nature Of Crime And Deviance
      Colin Sumner
2 : Theories Of Social Control And The State Between American And European Shores
      Dario Melossi
3 : Criminal Justice Process And War On Crime 
      Markus Dirk Dubber
4 : Criminology, Genocide, And Modernity: Remarks On The Companion That Criminology Ignored
      Wayne Morrison
Part II Juvenile Delinquency And Justice For Youth
5 : The Criminologists' Gang 
     Jack Katz And Curtis Jackson-Jacobs
6 : Youth Crime And Crime Control In Contemporary
      Mark Fenwick
7 : Consumer Culture And Crime In Late Modernity 
      Keith J. Hayward
8 : The Politics Of Youth Crime And Justice In South Africa
      Elrena Van Der Spuy, Wilfried Schärf, And Jeffrey Lever
Part III Punishment And Its Alternatives 
9 : Penal Policies And Contemporary Politics
      Pat O'malley
10  : 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 
11 : Rehabilitation: An Assessment Of Theory And Research 
         Mark W. Lipsey, Nana A. Landenberger, And Gabrielle L. Chapman
12 : Female Punishment: From Patriarchy To Backlash? Laureen Snider
Part IV Gender And The Masculinity Of Crime 
13 : Beyond Bad Girls: Feminist Perspectives On Female Offending 
        Meda Chesney-Lind 
14 : Managing “Men's Violence" In The Criminological 
        Arena 
        Adrian Howe
15 : Masculinities And Crime: Rethinking The "Man Question"? 
        Richard Collier
16 : "Abominable And Detestable”: Understanding Homophobia And The Criminalization Of Sodomy 
          Mary Bernstein
17 : The Gendering And Racializing Of Criminalized Others 
        Elizabeth Comack
Part V Capital, Power, And Crime
18 : White-Collar Crime 
        Amedeo Cottino
19 : “Dance Your Anger and Your Joys”: Multinational Corporations, Power, "Crime" 
          Frank Pearce and Steve Tombs
20 : Globalization and the Illicit Drugs Trade in Hong Kong 
         K. Joe Laidler
21 : Trafficking in Human Beings and Related Crimes in West and Central Africa
        Alexis A. Aronowitz and Monika Peruffo
PART VI GLOBALIZATION, CRIME, AND INFORMATION 
22 : Globality, Glocalization, and Private Policing: 
        A Caribbean Case Study 
        Maureen Cain
23 : The Rise of the Surveillant State in Times of Globalization 
        Thomas Mathiesen
24 : The Politics of Crime Statistics 
         William J. Chambliss
25 : Two Realities of Police Communication 
        Aaron Doyle and Richard Ericson
26 : Hacktivism - Resistance is Fertile? Paul A. Taylor
Index
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Author Details
Colin Sumner
William j. Chambliss