So many of these essays are brimming with powerful reasoning and vitally informative details that the few weak contributions can be forgiven. Strengths lie in the analyses of such topics as modern genocide, juvenile crime, female offenders, elite offenders, international outlaw networks, globalization effects on crime trends, and information technologies. Also beneficial are the tightly reasoned critiques of how crime is communicated to the public and targeted by state agencies. As they explore cutting-edge questions in criminology, readers will find sophisticated theoretical scholarship, especially regarding modern and postmodern frameworks, feminism, critical cultural studies, and neo-Marxism. Additionally, the global scope so essential for contemporary scholars has been successfully achieved in approximately half of these essays, and is presented in a style so engaging that they are sure to raise consciousness. Entries dealing with punishment offer little that is new; they, along with some of the gender topics and a couple of excessively intellectualized introductory essays, constitute a weak streak. But fully three-fourths of this anthology is academically solid, compelling, and ready to inform readers with a beginning foundation in criminological thought. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. Zingraff Meredith College From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface
List of Contributors
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
3 Criminal Justice Process and the War on Crime
4 Criminology, Genocide, and Modernity: Remarks on the Companion that Criminology Ignored:
Part II Juvenile Delinquency and Justice for Youth
5 The Criminologists' Gang
6 Youth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan
7 Consumer Culture and Crime inLate Modernity
8 The Politics of Youth Crime and Justice in South Africa
Part III Punishment and Its Alternatives
9 Penal Policies and Contemporary Politics
10 Beyond Bricks, Bars, and Barbed Wire: The Genesis and Proliferation of Alternatives to Incarceration in the United States
11 Rehabilitation: An Assessment of Theory and Research
12 Female Punishment: From Patriarchy to Backlash?
Part IV Gender and the Masculinity of Crime
13 Beyond Bad Girls: Feminist Perspectives on Female Offending
14 Managing "Men's Violence" in the Criminological Arena
15 Masculinities and Crime: Rethinking the "Man Question"?
16 "Abominable and Detestable": Understanding Homophobia and the Criminalization of Sodomy
17 The Gendering and Racializing of Criminalized Others
Part IV Capital, Power, and Crime
18 White-Collar Crime
19 "Dance Your Anger and Your Joys": Multinational Corporations, Power, "Crime"
20 Globalization and the Illicit Drugs Trade in Hong Kong
21 Trafficking in Human Beings and Related Crimes in West and Central Africa
Part V Globalization, Crime, and Information:.22. Globality, Globalization, and Private Policing: A Caribbean Case Study
23 The Rise of the Surveillant State in Times of Globalization
24 The Politics of Crime Statistics
25 Two Realities of Police Communication
26 Hacktivism: Resistance is Fertile?
Index

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