Immigration and its consequences is a substantially contested subject with hugely differing viewpoints. This highly topical area of contestation is examined here with experts from Europe, the USA, Turkey and Israel examining recent developments in the fields of culture conflict, organized crime, victimization and terrorism, all of which intersect to varying degrees with migration and illegal conduct.

Joshua D. Freilich is an Associate Professor in Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA. He is a lead investigator for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START); a Center of Excellence of the US Department of Homeland Security. Research interests include far-right wing culture, political crime, terrorism, criminological theory and international and comparative criminal justice. His research has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security and his work has appeared in Justice Quarterly, Behavioral Sciences and the Law and the Journal of Criminal Justice. Rob T. Guerette is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Florida International University, USA. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University-Newark and was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He has worked on various projects including collaborations with the Department of Homeland Security - US Border Patrol and the British Home Office Research Directorate. Research interests include unauthorized immigration and border security, situational crime prevention, problem-oriented policing and public policy related to crime.

Introduction, Joshua D. Freilich, Rob T. Guerette; Part I Migration, Religion, Culture and Terrorism; Chapter 1 Terrorism Rediscovered: The Issue of Politically Inspired Criminality, Hans-Heiner Kühne; Chapter 2 Culture or Conflict? Migration, Culture Conflict and Terrorism, Roland Eckert; Chapter 3 The 21st-Century Kulturkampf: Fundamentalist Islam Against Occidental Culture, Shlomo Giora Shoham; Chapter 4 1This work was supported, in part, by a grant from the City University of New York PSC-CUNY Research Award Program., Joshua D. Freilich, Matthew R. Opesso, Graeme R. Newman; Part II Migration and Offending Issues; Chapter 5 Religiosity and Crime: Attitudes Towards Violence and Delinquent Behavior among Young Christians and Muslims in Germany, Katrin Brettfeld, Peter Wetzels; Chapter 6 Immigration and Juvenile Delinquency in Germany, Kerstin Reich; Chapter 7 The Prison Situation of Foreigners in Japan, Koichi Miyazawa, Philipp Osten; Chapter 8 Media, Evil and Society: Media Use and its Impacts on Crime Perception, Sentencing Attitudes and Crime Policy in Germany, Christian Pfeiffer, Michael Windzio, Matthias Kleimann; Part III Organized Crime, Trafficking and Refugees; Chapter 9 The United Nations Global Program Against Trafficking in Human Beings: Results from Phase I of "Coalitions Against Trafficking in Human Beings in the Philippines", Alexis A. Aronowitz; Chapter 10 Transnational Organized Crime and Trafficking of Human Beings, Fusun Sokullu-Akinci; Chapter 11 Refugees and Human Rights: An International Law Perspective, Turgut Tarhanli; Part IV Responding to the Victimization of Migrants; Chapter 12 1Throughout this chapter the term "illegal" migrant is used to describe those who immigrate into countries without official approval. It is used interchangeably and synonymously with other common terms used to describe this type of behavior such as "irregular", "unauthorized", "illicit", "illegitimate", and/or "criminal"., Rob T. Guerette; Chapter 13 1Data used in this study were collected in the course of research on "Violence Against Immigrant Women and Systemic Responses" supported by grant #98-WT-VX-0030 from the National Institute of Justice., Edna Erez, Linsey Britz; Chapter 14 Dealing with Domestic Violence in India: A Problem-Solving Model for Police, Mangai Natarajan;