John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

• Volume OneVisions of JusticePART ONE: CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICEThe Emergence of Criminal Justice - P SpierenbergTwo Models of the Criminal Process - H L PackerConcepts of Criminal Justice - A J AshworthIdeology in Criminal Procedure or a Third ′Model′ of the Criminal Process - J GriffithsTheoretical Approches to Criminal Justice - M KingPART TWO: CRIMINAL JUSTICECriminal Justice in Capitalist Society - R QuinneyCriminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing - J ReimanModels of Justice - F HeidensohnPortia or Persephone? Some Thoughts on Equality, Fairness and Gender in the Field of Criminal JusticeBeyond White Man′s Justice - B HudsonRace, Gender and Justice in Late ModernityPART THREE: CONFLICT RESOLUTIONConflicts as Property - N ChristieSorting out Popular Justice - S E MerryThe Contradictions of Informal Justice - R L AbelFundamental Concepts of Restorative Justice - H Zehr and H MikaPeacemaking Primer - H PepinskyPART FOUR: TRANSNATIONAL AND GLOBAL JUSTICETransnational Policing and the Makings of a Postmodern State - J W E SheptyckiThe Globalization of Crime and Criminal Justice - D NelkenHow Penal Common Sense Comes to Europeans - L WacquantNotes on the Transatlantic Diffusion of the Neo-Liberal DoxaGlobalization, Human Rights and International Criminal Courts - W MorrisonVolume TwoState PunishmentPART FIVE: RETRIBUTION AND DETERRENCEThe Expressive Function of Punishment - J FeinbergThe Principle of Commensurate Deserts - A von HirschThinking about Crime - J Q WilsonThe Debate over DeterrenceIncapacitation and Imprisonment Policy - F E Zimring and G HawkinsThe American Experiment in Imprisonment - C MurrayPART SIX: CORRECTIONSPenal Strategies in a Welfare State - D GarlandCrime and Punishment - American Friends Services CommitteeCommunity Corrections - A ScullPanacea, Progress or Pretence?What Works? Questions and Answers about Prison Reform - R MartinsonReaffirming Rehabilitation - F T Cullen and K E GilbertReasoning and Rehabilitation - R Ross, E Fabiano and C EwlesReviewing What Works? Past, Present and Future - J McGuire and P PriestleyPART SEVEN: THE NEW PUNITIVENESSPublic Opinion and the Governance of Punishment in Democratic Political Systems - F E Zimring and D T JohnsonContemporary American Harshness - J WhitmanEmotive and Ostentatious Punishment - J PrattVolatile and Contradictory Punishment - P O′MalleyCrime Control and Social Order - D GarlandVolume ThreRisk, Prevention and SecurityPART EIGHT: ACTUARIAL JUSTICEThe Ideological Effects of Actuarial Practices - J SimonActuarial Justice - M Feeley and J SimonThe Emerging New Criminal LawRisk, Power and Crime Prevention - P O′MalleyPART NINE: SURVEILLANCEPanopticism - M FoucaultSpaces of Surveillant Simulation - S GrahamNew Technologies, Digital Representations and Material GeographiesGlobalizing Surveillance - D LyonComparative and Sociological PerspectivesFortified Enclaves - T CaldeiraThe New Urban SegregationPART TEN: CRIME PREVENTIONIntroduction - R V ClarkeBroken Windows - J Q Wilson and G KellingPreventing Crime - L W Sherman et alWhat Works, What Doesn′t, What′s PromisingDefining Crime Science - G LaycockTeetering on the Edge - G Hughes, E McLaughlin and J MuncieThe Futures of Crime Control and Community SafetyPART ELEVEN: GOVERNANCE, SECURITY AND SOCIAL CONTROLThe Punitive City - S CohenNotes on the Dispersal of Social ControlPrivate Security - C Shearing and P StenningImplications for Social ControlGoverning through Crime - J SimonGovernment and Control - N RoseComparing the Governance of Safety in Europe - A Edwards and G HughesA Geo-Historical Approach