1. Narrating the mood of the times : confusion, self-doubt, and ambivalence
2. The problem of modernity
3. The theorists of modernity : an introduction to Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Freidrich Nietzsche
4. The problem of classical criminology : stabilising disorder through law, or how to achieve the rule of law and hide the chaos of early modernity
5. Reading the texts of classical criminology : beyond mere command into systematic legitimation
6. Criminological positivism I : the search for the criminal man, or the problem of the duck
Criminological positivism II : psychology and the positivisation of the soul
8. Criminological positivism III : statistics, quantifying the moral health of society and calculating nature's laws
9. Positivism and the dream of organised modernity
10. Morality, normalcy and modernity : the moral intensity of everyday life
11. Locality and criminology : from the polis to the post-modern city
12. Criminology and the culture of modernity
13. Culture and crime in the post-modern condition
14. Labelling theory, and the work of David Matza
15. Crime and the existentialist dilemma
16. Modernity, gender and crime : from the biological paradigm into feminist interpretations
17. Contemporary social stratification and the development of the underclass
18. Building criminological theory in post-modernism.