This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology.

Gordon Hughes is Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK, having been Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice.

1.Sociology and Criminology: A Rapprochement 2.Classical Sociology and the Criminological Imagination: Some Core Principles and Concepts 3.Violence, Civilization and Modernity: Connecting Historical Sociology and Contemporary Criminology 4.Theory, Method and Evidence in Criminological Research: Classical Traces and Contemporary Developments 5.Critique and Normative Deliberation in Criminology: Value Involvement and Detachment Revisited 6.Street Crime, Violence and Young Men in Late Modernity 7.The Dark Side of Modernity? Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and State Crime 8.Organised Brutality, Human Rights and the Modern Global Order: Beyond the Civilizing Process?