Social Dynamics of Crime and Control

Kai.-D. Bussmann is Professor of Penal Law and Criminology at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg,Germany. Suzanne Karstedt is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology at Keele University, UK.

• Part 1 Crime and the social dynamics of markets: market dominance, crime and globalisation, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; subterranean sources of subcultural delinquency beyond the American dream, John Hagan, Gerd Hefler, Gabriele Classen, Klaus Boehnke and Hans Merkens; knights of crime - the success of "pre-modern" structures in the illegal economy, Susanne Karstedt; extortion, corruption and trust - a structural-constructionist perspective, Thomas Ohlemacher. Part 2 Social dynamics and the limits of legal control: republic theory, the good society and crime control, John Braithwaite; after the welfare state - whither informal law?, Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhof; shaming and the regulation of fraud and business "misconduct" - some preliminary explorations, Michael Levi; multinational firms as agents of civic virtues, Erhard Blankenburg. Part 3 Cultural dynamics - contexts of crime and control: translating social control - reflections on the comparison of Italian and North-American cultures concerning social control, with a few consequences for a "critical" criminology, Dario Melossi; "community" and governance - a cultural comparison, Nicola Lacey and Lucia Zedner; the gang myth, Jack Katz; explaining the absence of violence - a comparative approach, Willem de Haan. Part 4 The individual in a dynamic society - challenges and changes: desistance from crime - life history, turning points and implications for theory construction in criminology, Elmar G.M. Weitekamp, Hans-Jurgen Kerner, Wolfgang Stelly and Jurgen Thomas; a theory of motivation and the life course, Joan McCord; variation, selection and stabilisation - an evolutionary theory of crime and control, Kai-D. Bussmann.

...this is a very worthwhile collection of papers on important questions for criminologists to consider. Clive Coleman New Law Journal September 2002