" Building bridges is an major challenge for psychology and law. At a more personal level this challenge is taken up by Graham Davies in his introductory chapter on 'being a forensic psychologist and a magistrate'. Much Ado About Crime is an excellent, balanced an overarching attempt to confront this challenge in a fresh manner by suggestion new bridges between a more traditional criminological psychology and an emerging victimological psychology.

This volume, simultaneously focusing on perpetrators and witnesses, and on victims, victimization, and fear of crime, presents authoritative discussions by a select group of leading scholars in the field of psychology and law. This book will be of use to psychologists, criminologists, and lawyers, as well as students, who will be able to explore some of the key issues at the heart of these disciplines.

I have been delighted and impressed by the way in which the editors of this volume have set about the difficult task of selecting, ordering and presenting keynotes and presentations given at the Leuven EAPL conference. Much Ado About Cime not only generates a corpus of scientific knowledge, but is also a must read for policy- and lawmakers. "

Frans Willem Winkel, President European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL).