John Scott is Professor and Head of the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. Zoe Staines is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland.

Ten percent of the world's population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book addresses issues of how, and by whom, crime is defined in island settings, informed by the distinctive social structures of their communities.