ABSTRACT
This chapter explores issues relating to crime and crime control figured relatively low on the agenda of academic and policy debates about 'the new Europe'. British criminologists have as yet paid surprisingly little attention to the developments. Much more fast-moving developments, however, can be found in a small number of areas arousing major political interest. Concern about football hooliganism also generated collaboration between European police and criminal justice authorities, culminating during the 1990 World Cup in joint operations of a scale and intensity regarded by some commentators as wildly out of proportion to the problem. In contrast to the wealth of data collected about criminal offences, reported or not reported to the police, in every European country, there is almost no hard information available about cross-border crime for gain in Europe. There are individual forms of crime which constitute exceptions to this dearth of knowledge.
