Author Description

Distinctive features of European penology and penal policy-making /Sonja Snacken and Dirk van Zyl Smit --Punishment and the question of Europe /Tom Daems --Knowledge politics and penal politics in Europe /Ian Loader and Richard Sparks --The emerging role of the EU as a penal actor /Estella Baker --Approximation of sanctions within the European Union /Roland Miklau --The processes of criminalisation of migrants and the question of the European Union as a "land of immigration' /Dario Melossi --Youth justice policy in Europe: between minimum intervention, welfare and new punitiveness /Frieder Dünkel --Community sanctions and European penology /Fergus McNeill --Remand detention in Europe: comparative and pan-European aspects as elements of a wider European penology /Chirstine Morgenstern --Prison privatisation in Europe and beyond: changing states and penal rationalitites /Alison Liebling --Can prosecutors be too independent? An Italian case study /David Nelken --Truth in (the implementation of) sentencing: Belgium and elsewhere /Kristel Beyens, Sonja Snacken and Dirk van Zyl Smit --A Spanish window of European law and policy on employment discrimination based on criminal record /Elena Larrauri and James B. Jacobs --Penal developments in Poland: new or old punitiveness? /Kryzstof Krajewski --Reversing the punitive turn: the case of the Netherlands /Rene van Swaaningen.