Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

Gerben Bruinsma is Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.Henk Elffers is Co-ordinator of Research at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.Jan De Keijser also works at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Challenges for criminological and criminal justice research 2. Criminology and criminal justice in Europe, Michael Tonry Part 2: Punishment and Criminal Justice 3. Risk assessment and criminal law: closing the gap between criminal law and criminology 4. Actuarial justice and the modern state 5. Punishment, retribution and communication 6. Of crimes and punishment 7. The weakest link: human rights and the criminal offender in modern democratic government 8. European trends and transatlantic inspiration: youth offending and juvenile justice 9. Reflections on the relationship between transnational policing and organized crime Part 3: Location and Mobility 10. The emergence of crime places in crime prevention 11. The journey to crime 12. Decision models underlying the journey to crime 13. Transnational organized crime: new directions for empirical research and public policy Part 4: Perpetrators and Criminal Careers 14. Analysis of criminal careers 15. The development of aggression: causes and trajectories 16. A semi-parametric, group-based approach for analysing trajectories of development: a non-technical overview 17. Peers, crime and the life course 18. The changing role of delinquent peers in childhood and adolescence: issues, findings and puzzles