The criminal attacks that occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Domestic criminal law has become a vehicle for criminalising 'new' terrorist offences and other transnational forms of criminality. 'Preventative' detention regimes have come to the fore, balancing the scales in favour of security rather than individual liberty. These moves complement already existing shifts in criminal justice policies and ideologies brought about by adjusting to globalisation, economic neo-liberalism and the shift away from the post-war liberal welfare settlement. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the fields of criminal law and procedure, criminology, legal history, law and psychology and the sociology of law, focuses on the future directions for the criminal law in the light of current concerns with state security and regulating 'deviant' behaviour.

Part I: Introduction1. Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal LawBernadette McSherry, Alan Norrie and Simon BronittPart II: Shifts in Criminal Justice Policies2. Citizenship, Authoritarianism and the Changing Shape of the Criminal LawAlan Norrie3. Fixing the Future? The Pre-emptive Turn in Criminal JusticeLucia Zedner4. 'Victim-Driven' Criminalisation? Some Recent Trends in the Expansion of the Criminal Law Leslie SebbaPart III: The Quest for Security5. Criminal Law, Human Rights and Preventative JusticeAndrew Ashworth6. The Theory of Vulnerable Autonomy and the Legitimacy of Civil Preventative OrdersPeter Ramsay7. Expanding the Boundaries of Inchoate Crimes: The Growing Reliance on Preparatory OffencesBernadette McSherry8. Social Science and Criminal Law Reform: Beyond Mere Opinion Polling and Penal PopulismMark NolanPart IV: The Scope and Justification of Sexual Offences 9. Criminal Law and Private Spaces: Regulating Homosexual Acts in SingaporeKumaralingam Amirthalingam10. Moral Uncertainties of Rape and Murder: Problems at the Core of Criminal Law TheoryNgaire NaffinePart V: Codification and The Liberal Promise11. Criminal Codes in the 21st Century: The Paradox of the Liberal PromiseSimon Bronitt and Miriam Gani12. Faultlines Between Guilt and Punishment in Australia's Model Criminal Code Ian Leader-Elliott