Description: This collection of essays seeks a constructive comparative view of the tendencies of crime and punishment to converge and diverge.
Brief description: Dario Melossi is a Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna.
Review Quotes:
"It is impossible to do justice to a collection as rich as this within the limits of a journal book review. I can do no better than to encourage the reader to lay their hands on this anthology and explore the depth and breadth of each different analytical format, as presented by the various contributors.
...the themes which are presented in the papers in this collection are essential for a developed understanding of the future of criminology, and in general to understand analytical sociology. In addition, cultural richness acts as a springboard for deciphering the sociology of law, which can open windows of understanding into the exploration of cultural differences historically, economically, politically and ethically. The collection is a credit to the editors and to the Onati workshop tradition. It would also be remiss not to compliment Hart Publishing for their adventurous collaboration with the ISIL, which enables much wider access to what would otherwise be a limited and even monastic research experience. This is one of the best collections in the Onati series to date, and merits the careful consideration of those interested in cultural theorising as it relates to law, criminology, anthropology and applied sociology." --Mark Findlay, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies