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A good critical review of 'masculinities' criminology is given by Collier (1998) Masculinities, Crime and Criminology. Spalek (2002), Islam, Crime and Justice, covers a range of issues concerning the involvement of Muslim Asians in the UK in crime as offenders and as victims, and their experiences of criminal justice. Marshall (1997), Minorities, Migrants and Crime, provides a review of research, statistics, and policy issues on minorities, migrants, crime, and criminal justice in the USA and several European countries, including the UK. On state crime, Green and Ward (2004), State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption, offers innovative theory, drawing on a range of disciplines and on case studies from several countries, while Cohen (2000) States of Denial, draws on criminology, sociology, and psychology to examine ways in which ordinary people can deny knowledge of, and feel comfortable with their participation in, gross human rights violations. Literature on terrorism has proliferated since 11 September 2001: Martin (2003), Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues, and White (2003), Terrorism: An Introduction, provide good introductions and overviews.

Garland (2001), Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences, and Pratt et al. (2005), The New Punitiveness: Trends, theories, perspectives, contain excellent essays which demonstrate the entrenchment of punitive strategies to control groups defined as 'different'. There is now a large body of literature on restorative justice. For the topics dealt with in this chapter, two useful volumes are Weitekamp and Kerner (2002), Restorative Justice: Theoretical Foundations, and Elliott and Gordon (2005), New Directions in Restorative Justice. On truth commissions, see Hayner (2001), Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity and on transitional justice generally, Teitel (2000), Transitional Justice.

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