Crime: Fact and Fiction, Rhetoric and Reality -- 1. The Thorny Issue of Defining Crime -- 2. The Relativity of Crime in Time and Space -- 3. Criminology's Traditional and Persistent Bias -- 4. The Formidable Challenge of Measuring Crime -- 5. The Criminal: Conventional and Unconventional Views -- 6. The Victim: Beyond Popular Stereotypes -- 7. Criminology and Victimology -- 8. Early Speculative Explorations -- 9. Empirical Investigations and Naturalistic Explanations -- 10. Sociological, Sociocultural and Economic Explanations -- 11. Recent Theoretical Developments -- 12. The Future of Criminology and the Criminology of the Future.