Loraine Gelsthorpe is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Perveez Mody is a University Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of King's College and Brian Sloan is a College Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Robinson College, all at the University of Cambridge.

1. Introduction: Spaces of Care: Concepts, Configurations, and Challenges
Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody and Brian Sloan
2. Punishment and Care Reappraised
Rob Canton and Jane Dominey
3. Who Cares? Probation Practice and Privatisation
Jane Dominey and Loraine Gelsthorpe
4. Paradoxes of Care: Women in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales
Loraine Gelsthorpe and Rob Canton
5. 'All Children are Our Children': Care and Kinship in Residential Children's Homes in the Russian Federation
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill
6. Re-imagining Cities as Spaces of Care - A Perspective from Street Homelessness
Helen Carr, Ed Kirton-Darling and Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês
7. Formal and Informal Care in the Public and Private Spheres in England and Australia
Brian Sloan
8. Care and the Workplace: The Dutch Approach to Part-time Work, Flexible Working Arrangements and Leave
Susanne Burri
9. Ethics of Care and Disability Rights: Complementary or Contradictory?
Jonathan Herring
10. Kinship Care
Perveez Mody
11. Home and Away: Mobility and Care in Botswana's Time of AIDS
Koreen M Reece
12. Witnessing, Containing, Holding? Th e German Social Welfare State (Sozialstaat) and People in Flight
John Borneman
13. The Ability of Place: Digital Topographies of the Virtual Human on Ethnographia Island
Tom Boellstorff