Volume 52 is an annual survey of cutting-edge issues by preeminent criminology scholars.
 
Since 1979, Crime and Justice has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology.
 

Michael Tonry is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy (Emeritus) at the University of Minnesota and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany.
 

Preface
Michael Tonry
 
Virtual Reality for Criminologists: A Road Map
Jean-Louis van Gelder
 
Delegated Vigilantism and Less-than-Lethal Lynching in Twenty-First-Century America
Michael Tonry
 
The Everyday Life of Drugs in Prison
Sandra Bucerius, Kevin D. Haggerty, and Luca Berardi
 
Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and Canada
Patrick Lussier, Evan McCuish, and Elizabeth L. Jeglic
 
The Criminalization of Dissent and Protest
Rossella Selmini and Anna Di Ronco
 
Why Americans Are a People of Exceptional Violence
Michael Tonry
 
Victimization and Its Consequences over the Life Course
Jillian J. Turanovic
 
Sentencing Members of Minority Groups: Problems and Prospects for Improvement in Four Countries
Julian V. Roberts, Gabrielle Watson, and Rhys Hester
 
(Re)Considering Personality in Criminological Research
Isabel Thielmann
 
Collateral Consequences and Criminal Justice Reform: Successes and Challenges
Alessandro Corda
 
Collective Guardianship, Reactive and Proactive
Daniel S. Nagin, Shaina Herman, and Timothy C. Barnum