This issue explores some new topics and includes new voices. Marlyce Nuzum, a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, writes a concise and provocative article on the perils of privatization. Jeanne Flavin shares a short version of her ongoing work on how to deliver humane treatment to people who are (or are suspected of being) HIV+ when the police and society in general have high levels of AIDS-phobia. George Rigakos and Matt Robinson remind readers what the ‘critical’ part of critical criminology is about. Rigakos starts to deconstruct the risk profiling and actuarialism that are part of ‘risk society’. Robinson uses the current controversy about the tobacco industry to highlight the wrongs they have done and remind criminologists not to limit their inquiry only into officially designated ‘crimes’.

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