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.

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