Sarah Armstrong is a lecturer in criminology and a member of the Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh. Her current research is in the sociology of punishment and focuses on developing a sociology of accountability, analysing privatization in justice and punishment, and contributing to social and cultural scholarship on risk.Lesley McAra is a senior lecturer in criminology and a member of the Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh. She writes and teaches in the fields of the sociology of punishment, youth crime and justice, gender, and crime and criminal justice. Currently she is a co-director of a major programme of research funded by the ESCR, Scottish Executive and the Nuffield Foundation on youth transitions and crime.

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• Notes on Contributors ; Foreword ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Audience, borders, architecture: the contours of control ; 2. Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency: statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity ; 3. Tony Martin and the nightbreakers: criminal law, victims and the power to punish ; 4. European identity, penal sensibilities and communities of sentiment ; 5. Penalization, depoliticization, racialization: on the over-incarceration of immigrants in the European Union ; 6. Prisons during transition: promoting a common penal identity through international norms ; 7. The globalization of control - towards a control system without a state? ; 8. Welfare and punishment in comparative perspective ; 9. Sentencing as a Social Practice ; 10. 'Architecture', criminal justice, and control ; 11. Power, social control, and psychiatry: some critical reflections ; 12. Origins of actuarial justice