The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Towards a European criminological community......Page 20
European prospects......Page 36
Crime, market-liberalism and the European idea......Page 38
Conflicts and convergences in criminology: bringing politics and economy back in......Page 56
Remarks on social control, state sovereignty and citizenship in the New Europe......Page 71
From inclusive to exclusive society: nightmares in the European dream......Page 83
Penality and criminal justice......Page 112
A crisis of youth or of juridical response?......Page 114
Prison: between the law and social action......Page 123
Between civility and state......Page 138
The 'sensitive perimeter' of the prison: a key to understanding the durability of the penal institution......Page 144
~The big thieves hang the small ones~: equality before the criminal law in an unequal society......Page 155
Prison and alternatives to prison in Spain......Page 165
Another angle on European harmonisation: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture......Page 175
Victims' perceptions of police services in East and West Europe......Page 199
Criminal business......Page 220
Some observations on illegal markets......Page 222
Drugs, war and crime in the post-Soviet Balkans......Page 235
The market and crime in Russia......Page 249
Russian organised crime: moving beyond ideology......Page 261
The pentiti's contribution to the conceptualization of the Mafia phenomenon......Page 283
The international and the local......Page 306
Glocal organised crime: context and pretext......Page 308
Crime and the sense of one's place: globalization, restructuring and insecurity in an English town......Page 323
The moral crusade on violence in Sweden: moral panic, or material for small-talk indignation?......Page 342
Youth deviance and social exclusion in Greece......Page 358
Criminality or criminalization of migrants in Greece? An attempt at synthesis......Page 369
Crime and the welfare state: the case of the United Kingdom and Sweden......Page 387
Running risks and managing dangers: street robbery as a matter of trust......Page 414
Horizons......Page 422
'Ideology with human victims': the institution of 'crime and punishment' between social control and social exclusion: historical and theoretical issues......Page 424
The delinquent as a fading category of knowledge......Page 444
Corporate and state crimes against the environment: foundations for a green perspective in European criminology......Page 462
War and crime in the former Yugoslavia......Page 481
Towards a criminology of war in Europe......Page 499
Index......Page 526