Following a brief introduction addressing the issue of studying ethnic minorities, this journal presents an article discussing at risk youths who have turned to Islam for social integration and identity development. The second article analyzes the institutional procedures for accepting South-East Asian political refugees into France. Focusing on urban riots in North Africa and Egypt, the third article considers the various reasons some individuals turn to violence in order to obtain political representation. In the fourth article, a history of women entering active service in the Parisian police force is considered. Also discussing the French police force, the fifth article presents a discussion of the ways that the French police fail to reflect the diversity of French society, particularly in terms of ethnic minorities. Articles on the British police department’s active recruitment of ethnic minorities and the German police department’s recruitment of foreign nationals are the sixth and seventh papers presented in this collection. In the eighth article, laws concerning the videotaping of child victim testimonies are discussed in order to measure the effects and repercussions of the implementation of videotaping laws. The last article in this collection presents the official report of the symposium on the Police in France and in Great Britain held on November 8 and 9, 2002.