Legitimacy and criminal justice: an introduction -- Legitimacy and democracy in the world today -- Revisiting legitimacy, twenty years on -- Crime, justice, and legitimacy: a brief theoretical inquiry -- 'A voice within': power-holders' perspectives on authority and legitimacy -- Future challenges in the study of legitimacy and criminal justice -- Unfinished business: legitimacy, crime control, and democratic politics -- Trusting authorities: legitimacy, trust, and collaboration in non-democratic regimes -- Legitimacy, crimes, and compliance in 'The city': de maximis non curat lex? -- Legitimacy and state responses to terrorism: the UK and France -- 'Legitimacy under pressure' in high security prisons -- An unenviable task: how federal courts legitimized mass incarceration -- The situated production of legitimacy: perspectives from the Global South -- Legitimacy and the development of international standards for punishment -- Dialogue and dialectic: police legitimacy and the new professionalism -- Does low legitimacy cause crime? A review of the evidence -- Legitimacy, trust, and compliance: an empirical test of procedural justice theory using the European social survey.