This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issues associated with crime and punishment.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards a Public Criminology; Roger Matthews.- Chapter 2. The Violence Divide: Taking 'Ordinary' Crime Seriously in a Volatile World; Elliott Currie.- Chapter 3. Domestic Violence: The Increasing Tensions Between Experience, Theory, Research, Policy and Practice; Nicole Westmarland and Liz Kelly.- Chapter 4. Critical Realism and Gang Violence; John Pitts.- Chapter 5. Middle Range Critical Realism for Crime Prevention; Nick Tilley.- Chapter 6. Policing; Past, Present and Future; Ben Bowling, Shruti Iyer, Robert Reiner and James Sheptycki.- Chapter 7. Seven Ways to Make Prisons Work; Francis Cullen, Cheryl Jonson, Daniel Mears and Angela Thielo.- Chapter 8. Five Steps Towards a More Effective Global Drugs Policy; Caroline Chatwin.- Chapter 9. Taming Business? Understanding Effectiveness in the Control of Corporate and White Collar Crime; Fiona Haines.- Chapter 10. Cybercrime 4.0: Now What is to be Done?; Mike McGuire.- Chapter 11. Addressing Prostitution: The Nordic Model and Beyond; Helen Johnson and Roger Matthews.