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Acknowledgements -- About the Editors -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Crime and Criminal Justice in Asia -- Developments in Western Criminology -- A Comparative Approach -- The Structure of this Collection -- References -- Part I: Why Compare? Asian Countries, the West and Comparative Criminology -- Introduction to Part I -- References -- Chapter 2: The New Asian Paradigm: A Relational Approach -- Prospects and Challenges for an Asian Criminology -- The Development of a New Asian Paradigm -- Differential Association/Social Learning Theory -- General Strain Theory -- Self-Control Theory -- Social Control Theory -- Social Capital Theory -- Routine Activity Theory -- Self-Control Theory -- Situational Action Theory (SAT) -- Institutional Anomie Theory -- The Western Paradigm -- The Asian Paradigm -- Implications for Access to Justice -- Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 3: Asian Values, Crime and Social Change -- Two Traditions on Comparison -- Asian Values and Crime -- Asian Nationalists in Singapore and Malaysia -- Cultural Nationalism in China -- Criminal Justice Professionals on the Crime Problem -- An Indigenous Criminologist on the Low Crime Rate in Asia -- Indigenous Criminologists on Rising Crime -- Investigating Crime and Social Change: An Interpretive Research Programme -- References -- Chapter 4: Comparative Empirical Co-ordinates and the Dynamics of Criminal Justice in China and the West -- Introduction -- Police -- Prosecutors -- Judges -- Legitimacy -- Legitimacy and the Criminal Justice System: England and Wales -- The Spatial Dimensions of the Law -- Legitimation in China (Lawyers) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Asian Criminology and Southern Epistemologies -- Southern Epistemologies -- The Importance of Asian Criminology in Challenging Northern Hegemonies -- References

After a useful beginning in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment as both an experimental and analytic social science, criminology sank into two centuries of torpor. Its resurrection in the late twentieth century crime wave successfully returned criminology to the forefront of discovering useful, if not always used, facts about prevailing crime patterns and responses to crime. Criminology's failures of "use" in creating justice more enlightened by knowledge of its effects is linked to the still limited usefulness of criminology, which lacks a comprehensive body of evidence to guide sanctioning decisions. Yet that knowledge is rapidly growing, with experimental (as distinct from analytic) criminology now more prominent than at any time since Henry Fielding founded criminology while inventing the police. The future of criminology may thus soon resemble medicine more than economics.