This reader gathers together leading criminologists from all over Europe to consider crime and responses to crime within and across borders. It constitutes the most comprehensive collection available of key debates in the field.

Introduction: Towards a European Criminological Community Part 1: European Prospects 1. Crime, market-liberalism and the european idea 3. Remarks on social control, state sovereignty and citizenship in the new Europe Part 2: Penality and Criminal Justice 1. A crisis of youth or juridical response? 2. Prison 3. Between civility and state 4. The 'Sensitive Perimeter' of the prison 6. Prison and alternatives to prison in Spain 7. Another angle on European harmonization 8. Victims' perception of police services in East and West Europe Part 3: 1. Some observations on illegal markets 2. Drugs, War and illegal Enterprise in teh Post-Soviet Balkans 3. The Market and Crime in Russia 4. Russian Organised Crime 5. The Pentiti's contribution to the conceptualization of the mafia phenomenon Part 4: The International and the Local 1. Local organised crime 3. The moral crusade on violence in Sweden 4. Youth deviance and social exclusion in Greece 5. Criminality or criminalization of migrants in Greece? An attempt at synthesis 6. Crime and the welfare state: The case of the UK and Sweden Part 5: Horizons 1. 'Ideology with human victims': The institution of 'crime and punishment' between social control and social exclusion 3.Corporate and state crimes against the environment: Foundations for a green perspective in European criminolgy 4. War and crime in the former Yugoslavia 5. Towards a criminology of war in Europe