The Routledge handbook of European criminology / edited by Sophie Body-Gendrot, Mike Hough, Klara Kerezsi... [et al.]

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List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- 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