The first article analyzes crime control strategies in contemporary Great Britain and argues that the normality of high crime rates and the limitations of criminal justice agencies have created a new predicament for governments. The response to this predicament has been a recurring ambivalence that explains the volatile and contradictory nature of recent crime control policies. The second article discusses the exercise of coercive state power in the People's Republic of China against those who undermine the political order. Dangerousness is examined in relation to political considerations necessary to maintain order in a one-party socialist state. The third article explores the scope for developing consumerist principles in the context of courts and their treatment of defendants, while the fourth article examines attitudes and experiences of police officers in Sussex, England, toward female police constables since implementation of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975. The fifth article presents a study that shows the criminality of young males who have resided for a long period of time in the same part of Stockholm, Sweden, has not been influenced by spatial location. In evaluating the relationships between alcohol consumption and intoxication, stressors, and injury in urban violence, the sixth article concludes that heavy binge drinking increases vulnerability to injury. References, footnotes, tables, and figures