1 International and comparative criminal justice and urban governance&ADAM CRAWFORD 1
PART 1 International criminal justice 39
2 Unintended justice: the United Nations Security Council and international criminal governance&JAMES COCKAYNE 41
3 The International Criminal Court and the state of the American exception&JASON RALPH 67
4 Universal crimes, universal justice? The legitimacy of the international response to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes&CHRISJE BRANTS 86
5 Locating victim communities within global justice and governance&MARK FINDLAY 109
6 Dealing with war crimes in Bosnia: retributive and restorative options through the eyes of the population&STEPHAN PARMENTIER AND ELMAR WEITEKAMP 140
7 Shaping penal policy from above? The role of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights&DIRK VAN ZYL SMIT AND SONJA SNACKEN 168
PART 2 Comparative penal policies 191
8 Penal comparisons: puzzling relations&MICHAEL CAVADINO AND JAMES DIGNAN 193
9 Why globalisation doesn't spell convergence: models of institutional variation and the comparative political economy of punishment&NICOLA LACEY 214
10 Penal excess and penal exceptionalism: welfare and imprisonment in Anglophone and Scandinavian societies&JOHN PRATT 251
11 The impact of multi-level governance on crime control and punishment&LESLEY McARA 276
12 Explaining Canada's imprisonment rate: the inadequacy of simple explanations&CHERYL MARIE WEBSTER AND ANTHONY N. DOOB 304
13 US youth justice policy transfer in Canada: we'll take the symbols but not the substance&JANE B. SPROTT 331
14 Liberty, equality and justice: democratic culture and punishment&SUSANNE KARSTEDT 356
PART 3 Comparative crime control and urban governance 387
15 Victimhood of the national? Denationalising sovereignty in crime control&KATJA FRANKO AAS 389
16 Cosmopolitan liberty in the age of terrorism&CLIVE WALKER 413
17 Restorative justice and states' uneasy relationship with their publics&JOANNA SHAPLAND 439
18 Governing nodal governance: the 'anchoring' of local security networks&HANS BOUTELLIER AND RONALD VAN STEDEN 461
19 From the shopping mall to the street corner: dynamics of exclusion in the governance of public space&ADAM CRAWFORD 483
20 Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum in social and situational crime prevention&SARAH BLANDY 519
21 French perspectives on threats to peace and local social order&SOPHIE BODY-GENDROT 545
22 The question of scale in urban criminology&MARIANA VALVERDE 567
Index 587