Contributors. Introduction. Part I - Theories and methodologies of critical criminology. Critical criminological research (Julie Stubbs). Culture, critical criminology and the imagination of crime (Alison Young). Class analysis and the crime problem (Rob White). Psychologising criminals and the Frankfurt School'ss critique (Thalia Anthony and Dorothea Anthony). Neo-Liberalism and risk in criminology (Pat O’Malley). Crime and social theory (Robert van Krieken). Part II - Critical theory in action. Critical reflections on feminist criminologies (Kerry Carrington). Masculinities, crime and criminalisation (Stephen Tomsen). Narrating the chase: edgework and young peoples’ experiences of crime (Mark Halsey). Ethnic minority immigrants, crime and the state (Scott Poynting). Colonial critique and critical criminology: issues in aboriginal law and aboriginal violence (Harry Blagg). Part III - Broadening definitions of crime and criminology. State crime: some conceptual issues (Mike Grewcock). Torture and terror (Elizabeth Stanley). The new criminals: refugees and asylum seekers (Sharon Pickering). Hate crime (Gail Mason). Dead man working? Critical criminology, human rights and the workplace (Barbara Ann Hocking and Scott Guy). Part IV - Responses to crime. Key issues in a critical approach to policing (Jude McCulloch). Police culture: a brief history of a concept (Janet Chan). Giving voice: the prisoner and discursive citizenship (David Brown). Understanding prisoner resistance: power, visibility and survival in high-security (Bree Carlton). Risk, punishment and liberty (Mark Brown). Penal populism and the contemporary role of punishment (John Pratt). Part V - Future directions in critical criminology. Resisting a “Law and Order” society (Russell Hogg). Understanding restorative justice through the lens of critical criminology (Chris Cunneen). Toward constituting a critical criminology for rural Australia (Garry Coventry and Darren Palmer). Globalised crime and governance: the outcomes for understanding international criminal justice (Mark Findlay).