From the Foreword by Piers Beirne, University of Maine:

"Because our world in the new millennium differs so profoundly from the twentieth-century one inhabited by Durkheim, recognition of this overwhelming difference is one of several organizing principles employed by editors Nick Larsen and Russell Smandych. As they rightly stress, a comparative approach to the understanding of crime and justice cannot properly capture the full complexity of globalization at the dawn of the twenty-first century. We need a global criminology now!"

Global Criminology and Criminal Justice brings together 22 articles that constitute some of the most important recent literature in the field. Theory and research is situated within a broader discussion of the historical shift over the past three decades from comparative and international, to global criminology.

Nick Larsen teaches in the Department of Sociology at Chapman University, Orange, California. His major research interests include prostitution control, criminal justice policy, women in criminal justice, and aboriginal justice. He is currently involved in ongoing research into the control of street prostitution in several large Canadian cities.

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Russell Smandych is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

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