Mostly British or American--but some also from such diverse places as Japan and Turkey--criminologists, sociologists, and law scholars explore a new approach to criminology that loosens the methodological, theoretical, and substantive constraints they find in the mainstream discipline. Theories of crime and crime control, they claim, are too important to leave to statisticians or theoreticians floating adrift from the immediacy of transgression. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)