1. Introduction.Criminal Questions： Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion&Dario Melossi， Maximo Sozzo and Richard Sparks 1
Part Ⅰ.Cultural Embeddedness of Punishment 17
2. Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment&David Garland 17
3. Neoliberalism’s Elective Affinities： Penality， Political Economy and International Relations&Dario Melossi 45
4. Theorising the Embeddedness of Punishment&David Nelken 65
Part Ⅱ.Diffusion of Post-Fordist Penality 95
5. State Form， Labour Market and Penal System： the New Punitive Rationality in context&Inaki Rivera Beiras 95
6. Post-Fordism and Penal Change： The New Penology as a Post-Disciplinary Social Control Strategy&Alessandro De Giorgi 113
Part Ⅲ.Travels of Discourses of Criminology and Crime Prevention 147
7. Lombroso’s ‘La Donna Delinquente’： its Strange Journeys in Italy，England and the USA， Including Scenes of Mutilation and Salvation&Nicole Rafter 147
8. The Governance of Crime in Italy： Global Tendencies and Local Peculiarities&Rossella Selmini 161
9. Cultural Travels and Crime Prevention in Argentina&Maximo Sozzo 185
Index 217