DON CREWE Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKSIMON GREEN Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology, University of Hull, UKPHIL HADFIELD Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, UKCLAUDIUS MESSNER Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Law, University of Salento, ItalyDANNY O'ROURKE-DICARLO Lecturer in Social Science, York University, CanadaDAVID POLIZZI Assistant Professor of Corrections, Indiana State University, USAJAMES SHEPTYCKI Professor of Criminology, York University, Canada

• Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Hardie-Bick  & R.Lippens Goffman, Existentialism and Criminology; J.Hardie-Bick & P.Hadfield Subjectivation as Problem and Project: Is there an Existentialist Motif in Foucault?; C.Messner Vengeance and Furies: Existential Dilemmas in Penal Decision Making; S.Green Total Institutions and the Last Human Freedom; J.Hardie-Bick Existential Predicaments and Constabulary Ethics; D.O'Rourke  & J.Sheptycki Heidegger, Restorative Justice and Desistance: A Phenomenological Perspective; D.Polizzi  Crime, Harm and Responsibility; D.Crewe Mystical Sovereignty and the Emergence of Control Society; R.Lippens Index