By V. Ruggiero
The recent eu Criminology gathers jointly top criminologists from in every single place Europe to think about crime and responses to crime inside and throughout nationwide borders. For the 1st time it permits scholars to adventure the main fascinating paintings in eu criminology and to match ways to crime in several elements of Europe. The 5 sections of the booklet examine: * the results of ecu harmonisation on crime * legal justice, legislations enforcement and penal reform * organised crime, from the Mafia in Italy to drug operating within the Balkans * neighborhood crime in overseas contexts * attainable destiny instructions for criminology and a few feedback for a brand new criminology of battle.
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Malin Åkerström analyses the moral panic surrounding violent crime in Sweden, while Sophia Vidali and Vassilis Karydis conduct a similar analysis, respectively, of problem youth and immigration in Greece. Henrik Tham offers a comparative study of crime and the welfare state in Sweden and the UK, and finally Willem de Haan discusses myths and realities of street robbery in Amsterdam. We have chosen ‘Horizons’ as the title for Part V of the book because the chapters contained in it allude to future challenges and oppotunities for criminology in Europe.
