This work examines the process of policy transfer and reception. How are particular slogans like zero tolerance policing, gadgets, technical vocabularies, electronic monitoring and rhetoric like the "war against crime", spread from one place to another, and what new meanings do they take on?

1. Criminal Justice and Political Cultures  2. Durkheim, Tarde and Beyond: The Global Travel of Crime Policies  3. Globalising Risk? Distinguishing Styles of 'Neoliberal' Criminal Justice in Australia and the USA  4. Policing, Securitisation and Democratisation in Europe  5. The Cultural Embeddedness of Social Control: Reflections on a Comparison of Italian and North American Cultures Concerning Punishment  6. Controlling Measures: The Repackaging of Common-sense Opposition to Women's Imprisonment in England and Canada  7. The Convergence of US and UK Crime Control Policy: Exploring Substance and Process  8. Youth Justice: Globalisation and Multi-modal Governance  9. Importing Criminological Ideas in a New Democracy: Recent South African Experiences  10. Policy Transfer in Local Crime Control: Beyond Nave Emulation  11. Containment, Quality of Life and Crime Reduction: Policy Transfers in the Policing of a Heroin Market