Includes Index.

Contents: Approaching criminal justice and criminology: Contemporary criminology, crime and strategies of crime control -- The Politics and processes of criminal justice -- Researching crime and criminal justice -- Unravelling criminal justice and criminology: Criminal justice, public opinion, fear and popular politics -- Media representations of criminal justice -- Minorities, crime and criminal justice -- Gender, crime and criminal justice -- Victims, crime and criminal justice -- Islam and criminal justice -- Regulation and corporate crime -- Globilization, human rights and international criminal courts -- Delivering criminal justice: Crime prevention, community safety and crime and disorder reduction -- Police and policing -- Sentencing and court processes -- Youth crime and youth justice -- Probation and community penalties -- Thinking about imprisonment --Restorative and informal justice -- Criminal justice in Scotland.