1: Introduction to the Second Edition: Cutting the Edge : What a Difference a Decade Makes? 1; 2: Cutting the Edge: Where have We been and Where are We Going?; 1: Perspectives in Criminology; 3: Insurgent Possibilities: The Politics of Cultural Criminology; 4: White Collar Crime and Critical Criminology: Convergence and Divergence; 5: Corporate Crime: A Panacea for Critical Criminology; 6: Toward a Supranational Criminology; 2: Perspectives in Criminal Justice; 7: Radical and Critical Criminology's Treatment of Municipal Policing; 8: A House Divided: Corrections in Conflict; 9: A Convict Criminology Perspective on Community Punishment: Further Lessons from the Darkness of Prison; 10: The Potential for Fundamental Change in Juvenile Justice: Implementing an Alternative Approach to Problem Youth; 11: Razing the Wall: A Feminist Critique of Sentencing Theory, Research and Policy; 12: A Geometry of Its Own: Restorative Justice, Relationships and Community in Democracy

Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today's academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past mistakes or reinventing the wheel. Cutting the Edge by Jeffrey Ian Ross will encourage individuals and organizations, especially students and instructors, to innovatively identify ways of experimenting with new policy initiatives designed to improve not only criminal justice, but social and human justice as well.
Ross has significantly changed this volume to include six new chapters and three revised ones as well. The studies chosen demonstrate the difference between critical criminology and other approaches used to study and explain criminological phenomena. The authors do not approach the inequalities of the criminal justice system as phenomena that should be studied, but as wrongs that must be righted.
Cutting-edge critical criminology combines concerns about fairness in punishment, tools of class analysis and the insights of feminism, postmodernism, and ethnography. The authors included here wield these newer tools with elegance and enthusiasm. Written with passion by experts in the field, the book engages the mind as fully as it engages the emotions.