Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I General Overview -- 2 A Review of the Principal European Countries -- 3 Do Conflicts between Cultures Really Exist? A Historical and Methodological Reflection -- 4 Using Gender to Shape Difference: The Doctrine of Cultural Offence and Cultural Defence -- 5 Media Discourse on Immigration: Control Practices and the Language we Live -- 6 The Detention Machine -- 7 The Metamorphosis of Asylum in Europe: From the Origins of 'Fake Refugees' to their Internment -- 8 The (re)Criminalization of Roma Communities in a Neoliberal Europe -- 9 The U.S. Penal Experiment -- Part II National Case Studies -- 10 Delinquency, Victimization, Criminalization and Penal Treatment of Foreigners in France -- 11 Criminalization and Victimization of Immigrants in Germany -- 12 The Construction of Migrants as a Risk Category in the Spanish Penal System -- 13 The Italian Crime Deal -- Part III Particular Practices -- 14 The Road to Racial Profiling Was Paved by Immigrants -- 15 England: At the Forefront in the Punishment of Minors -- Bibliography -- Index.