David Nelken is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is also visiting Professor of Law (Criminology) at University College London where he was previously Reader in Law. His book The Limits of the Legal Process (Academic Press, 1983) gained an American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award. He is general editor of the International Library of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Dartmouth) for whom he is editing a volume on White-Collar Crime. He will also shortly be publishing a book with N Passas on Controlling EC Fraud and for Pluto Press a book entitled Law¿s Truth.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Nelken: Futures of Criminology

Stanley Cohen Hebrew University Jerusalem

Wayne Morrison Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

Massimo Pavarini University of BolognaPeter Rush University of Lancaster

Alison Young University of Lancaster

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