Preface
str. 9

Vorwort
str. 13

Rick Aniskiewicz
"Portraits" in the world of organized crime
str. 19

Genovaite Babachinaite, Brigita Palavinskiene
Most dangerous violence victimization of natural persons in Lithuania
str. 33

Katarzyna T. Boratyńska
A few remarks on the amendment to the preparatory proceedings
str. 49

Francis T. Cullen, Jennifer L. Lux, Cheryl Lero Jonson
Assessing the effectiveness of multisystemic therapy: a case study in evidence-based corrections
str. 65

Adam Czarnota
Post-communist transitional justice, rule of law and corruption of the public sphere
str. 85

Obi N.I. Ebbe, Charles B.A. Ubah
Kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria
str. 101

Chris Eskridge
Corruption in the 21st century
str. 117

Wojciech Filipkowski, Jędrzej Pogorzelski
Technological aspects of the fight against organized crime in the opinion of public prosecutors
str. 135

Marek Fryšták
Realisation of the right to interpretation and translation in Czech criminal proceedings and its possible misuse
str. 153

Yakov Gilinskiy
Organized crime in contemporary Russia
str. 167

Jack R. Greene
The new landscape of American policing: prospects, partnerships and pitfalls
str. 183

Ewa Monika Guzik-Makaruk, Emilia Jurgielewicz
The threat of bribery in the light of public opinion studies in Poland
str. 199

Hans Joachim Hirsch
Über Strafrechtliche Fragen des Sportrechts
str. 225

C. Ronald Huff
Transitional justice and convictions based on political repression
str. 241

Makoto Ida
Alterskriminalität in Japan
str. 251

Věra Kalvodová
Selected problems of the new Czech Criminal Code
str. 257

Ewa Kowalewska-Borys, Agnieszka Malarewicz-Jakubów
The presence of media in Polish criminal trial - systematic remarks
str. 265

Vladimír Kratochvíl
Die Diskussion über Begriff und Auffassung der Straftat in Tschechien ist fortzuführen...
str. 285

Barry Krisberg
The long and winding road: Juvenile corrections reform in California
str. 297

Cezary Kulesza
Developments of the European Criminal Justice Systems: defence perspective
str. 317

Karl-Ludwig Kunz
Strafrechtsmodelle und Gesellschaftsstruktur
str. 337

Dariusz Kużelewski
Sentencing and healing circles in Canada
str. 351

Raimo Lahti
Towards internationalization and Europeanization of criminal policy and criminal justice - challenges to comparative research
str. 365

Klaus von Lampe
Research on transnational organized crime. A review of the scholarly literature
str. 381

Katarzyna Laskowska
Crime and social pathologies in the Podlaskie Province in the recent years
str. 395

Jessica C.M. Li, Bill Hebenton
Juveniles' perceptions of police officers in a community policing initiative in Hong Kong
str. 417

Jianhong Liu
Reporting bicycle theft to the police - assessing Black's theory of law in urban China
str. 431

Ineke Haen Marshall
Reflections on the place of longitudinal criminal career research in crime theory, research and policy
str. 451

Mirosława Melezini, Andrzej Sakowicz
Punitiveness of the penal system in Poland
str. 463

Greg Newbold
New Zealand's "three strikes" law
str. 487

Magdalena Perkowska
Activities of foreign organized criminal groups in Switzerland
str. 499

Emil W. Pływaczewski, Zbigniew Rau
Security studies in Poland (with the project entitled "Monitoring, identification, and countering threats to the security of citizens" as an example)
str. 515

Szilveszter Póczik
Integration problems of the Roma in Europe and Hungary. Exclusion, persecution, deviance, crime and victimization
str. 539

Peter Rackow
(Rechtliche) Rahmenbedingungen polizeilicher Jugendarbeit
str. 565

Jerzy Sarnecki
Management by results in police work. A few ideas drawn from Swedish and international research
str. 585

Rick Sarre
The threat of imprisonment as a weapon in the battle against white-collar crime
str. 615

Kurt Schmoller
Gesichtsverschleierung im Strafprozess
str. 627

Hans Joachim Schneider
Die internationale Verbrechensopferforschung - die gegenwärtige Situation aufgrund von 13 internationalen Symposien der "World Society of Victimology"
str. 647

Bernd Schünemann
Der strafrechtliche Schutz des geistigen Eigentums
str. 673

Dina Siegel
Cultural criminology
str. 687

Arndt Sinn
Auf dem Weg zu einem Raum der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und Rechts? - Die Vermeidung von strafrechtlichen Jurisdiktionskonflikten in der Europäischen Union
str. 701

Diana Summers, Matthew J. Dolliver
Drug use: treatment or punishment? A comparison between Poland and the United States
str. 715

Szczęsny T. Szymański, Elżbieta Zatyka
Broader protection of public officials in the Polish criminal law
str. 733

Grażyna B. Szczygieł
Legal instruments intended to guarantee observance of the rights of incarcerated convicts
str. 747

Charles B.A. Ubah
Organized crime in America: Why it is widely misunderstood
str. 763

S. George Vincentnathan, Lynn Vincentnathan
Beccaria's theory of crime and punishment versus implications of sociological criminology
str. 777

Elmar G.M. Weitekamp, Stephan Parmentier
On the road to reconciliation: the attempt to develop a theoretical model which applies restorative justice mechanisms in post-conflict societies
str. 795

Keiichi Yamanaka
Bemerkungen zum Japanischen Winnyfall - Strafbarkeit des Anbietens von Tausch-Software im Internet
str. 805

Minoru Yokoyama
Offenses of Japanese corporations against policy for environment
str. 821

About the editor
str. 841

About the reviewers
str. 845