Tom Daems is Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology of Law at Ghent University, Belgium.
Dirk van Zyl Smit is Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law at the University of Nottingham.
Sonja Snacken is Professor of Criminology, Penology and Sociology of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Preface
Tom Daems, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Sonja Snacken
Contributors
Part One: Concepts and Institutions
1. Distinctive Features of European Penology and Penal Policy-Making
Sonja Snacken and Dirk van Zyl Smit
2. Punishment and the Question of Europe
Tom Daems
3. Knowledge Politics and Penal Politics in Europe
Ian Loader and Richard Sparks
4. The Emerging Role of the EU as a Penal Actor
Estella Baker
5. Approximation of Sanctions within the European Union
Roland Miklau
Part Two: Cross-Cutting Issues
6. The Processes of Criminalisation of Migrants and the Question of the European Union as a 'Land of Immigration'
Dario Melossi
7. Youth Justice Policy in Europe-Between Minimum Intervention, Welfare and New Punitiveness
Frieder Dünkel
8. Community Sanctions and European Penology
Fergus McNeill
9. Remand Detention in Europe: Comparative and Pan-European Aspects as Elements of a Wider European Penology
Christine Morgenstern
10. Prison Privatisation in Europe and Beyond: Changing States and Penal Rationalities
Alison Liebling
Part Three: Nationally Based Perspectives
11. Can Prosecutors be too Independent? An Italian Case Study
David Nelken
12. Truth in (the Implementation of) Sentencing: Belgium and Elsewhere
Kristel Beyens, Sonja Snacken and Dirk van Zyl Smit
13. A Spanish Window on European Law and Policy on Employment Discrimination Based on Criminal Record
Elena Larrauri and James B Jacobs
14. Penal Developments in Poland: New or Old Punitiveness?
Krzysztof Krajewski
15. Reversing The Punitive Turn: The Case of the Netherlands
René van Swaaningen