The book has five parts: theory, the epidemiology and etiology of crime, law and law enforcement, corrections, and victimology. The part on theory opens with a chapter on the development of criminal justice and criminological thought over Israel's history. The second chapter provides an empirical examination of what the author calls "patterned deviance," those norms that continue to be violated despite the unacceptableness of such violating behavior. The third chapter presents an overall view of the Israeli criminal justice system. The section on the epidemiology and etiology of crime in Israel opens with a chapter that presents crime statistics for Israel; it encompasses crime categories, sentencing, imprisonment, and victimization during most of Israel's history. Other chapters in this section address juvenile delinquency in Israel, violent crime, organized crime, and political violence and alternative justice. The third part of the book, which deals with law and law enforcement, discusses the development of criminal law in Israel as well as the formative role of the state in the development of the police and police reform. The four chapters in the section on corrections discuss punishment, prisoners' rights, and pardons; the Israeli prison system; juvenile and adult probation in Israel; and rehabilitation efforts in the Israeli prison. In the fifth section, the lone chapter discusses victimological research in Israel as viewed from past and current perspectives. The concluding chapter places the work on Israeli criminal justice in a context of historical development, the state of current knowledge, and potential future directions. Chapter references and tables and a subject index