Comparative Criminology

PIERS BEIRNE is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Criminology: An Introduction (1991), Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1938 (1990), and Marxism and Law, (1982), among other works.JOAN HILL is a graduate of the Criminology Program at the University of Southern Maine.

• Preface Meaning and Measurement in Comparative Criminology General Issues in Comparative Criminology Cross-National Data Perceptions of Crime Cross-National Crime Rates Violent Crime Crimes Against Property Economic and Political Crime Transnational Corporate Crime Correlates of Crime: Age, Class, Gender and Race Underdevelopment and Modernization Social Control and Criminal Justice Social Control and Dispute Resolution Criminal Justice and Penal Policies Appendix A: Lists of Countries in Cross-National Data Sets Appendix B: Lists of United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Publications and Staff Papers Appendix C: Addresses of United Nations Regional Institutes for Crime Prevention Appendix D: Miscellaneous Research Aids Author Index Subject Index