Over the last twenty-five years the significance of criminal justice has dramatically changed. In a "post-modern" culture, criminal law serves more and more as a focal point in public morality. The "discovery" of the victim of crime can be seen as the marking point by which criminal justice got its central position in the maintenance of social order. It is the result of a general "victimalization" of today's morality.

1 Morality, Criminal Justice and Criminal Events.- Criminality and the Norm.- Morality and Culture.- Morality and Post-Modernism.- Criminal Law and Morality.- Solidarity and Victimhood.- 2 Morality and Criminal Justice Policy.- The Discovery of Petty Crime.- Comments.- Conclusion.- 3 Morality and Victims.- Crime as a Moral Problem.- The Victimological Twist.- The Rediscovery of the Victim.- The Victimalization Process.- 4 Victimalization of the Sexually Abused Child.- The Ambivalence.- The "Discovery".- Individualization of the Child.- From Fantasy to Reality.- Conclusion.- 5 The De-victimalization of the Prostitute.- From Regulation to Brothel Prohibition.- A Psychological Problem.- A Sexual Variation.- The Second Feminist Wave.- Conclusion.- 6 Solidarity or Virtuousness; Rorty versus Maclntyre.- Maclntyre's Virtuous Community.- Rorty's Ironic Solidarity.- The Moral Subject.- Liberalism and Solidarity.- Conclusion.- 7 Criminality and Liberalism: Some Closing Comments.- The Issue of Crime.- Criminology.- Criminal Justice Policy.- Normative Liberalism.- The Normative State.- Normative Upbringing.- Conclusion.- References.