Crime : definitions and causes. Is crime functional? / Emile Durkheim, Jeffrey H. Reiman ; Is crime created by society's elites? / Richard Quinney, Daniel Bell ; Is criminal behavior biologically determined? / C.R. Jeffery, Tony Platt, Paul Takagi ; Is street crime more serious than white-collar crime? / James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein, Jeffrey H. Reiman
Measuring crime : its extent and distribution. Are official statistics meaningful? / A. Keith Bottomley, Ken Pease, Bruce Jackson ; Is crime getting worse? / Elliott Currie, Kevin N. Wright ; Has the women's movement increased female crminality? / Freda Adler, Darrell J. Steffensmeier
Crime control : the police, the courts, and corrections. Is the criminal justice system racist? / Anthony G. Amsterdam, William Wilbanks ; Should the police direct community crime prevention? / Douglas E. Rake, Ronald L. Boostrom, Joel H. Henderson ; Juvenile justice : are kids "getting away with murder"? / Alfred S. Regnery, Stephen J. Brodt, J. Steven Smith ; Should lawyers use "hardball" tactics? / Stephanie B. Goldberg, Robert N. Sayler ; Is selective incapacitation just? / Brian Forst, Andrew von Hirsch ; Should capital punishment be abolished? / Jack Greenberg, Ernest van den Haag
Future trends. Do we need more jails? / Dale A. Nederhoff, John Irwin ; Will gun control reduce crime? / Josh Sugarmann, James D. Wright ; Should we send convicts to penal colonies? / Tom Murton, Alexander E. Hooke ; Will drug legalization help the criminal justice system? / Arnold S. Trebach, John Kaplan ; Is the victims' rights movement succeeding? / Marlene A. Young, Robert Elias.