ABSTRACT

The New European Criminology gathers together leading criminologists from all over Europe to consider crime and responses to crime within and across national borders. For the first time it allows students to experience the most exciting work in European criminology and to compare approaches to crime in different parts of Europe.
The five sections of the book look at:
* the effects of European harmonisation on crime
* criminal justice, law enforcement and penal reform
* organised crime, from the Mafia in Italy to drug running in the Balkans
* local crime in international contexts
* possible future directions for criminology and some suggestions for a new criminology of war.

chapter |16 pages

INTRODUCTION

Towards a European Criminological Community

part |2 pages

Part I EUROPEAN PROSPECTS

part |2 pages

Part II PENALITY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

chapter 7|6 pages

BETWEEN CIVILITY AND STATE

chapter 8|11 pages

THE ‘SENSITIVE PERIMETER’ OF THE PRISON

A key to understanding the durability of the penal institution

chapter 9|10 pages

“THE BIG THIEVES HANG THE SMALL ONES”

Equality before the criminal law in an unequal society

part |2 pages

Part III CRIMINAL BUSINESS

part |2 pages

Part IV THE INTERNATIONAL AND THE LOCAL

chapter 20|16 pages

The moral crusade on violence in Sweden: moral panic, or material for small-talk indignation? MALIN ÅKESTRÖM

Moral panic, or material for small-talk indignation?

part |2 pages

Part V HORIZONS

chapter 25|20 pages

‘IDEOLOGY WITH HUMAN VICTIMS’

The institution of ‘crime and punishment’ between social control and social exclusion: historical and theoretical issues

chapter 27|19 pages

CORPORATE AND STATE CRIMES AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT

Foundations for a green perspective in European criminology