Table of Contents

Preface
Stanley Cohen
Introduction
Marilyn Strathern
Developing Cultural Specificity for a Cultural Criminology
Cyndi Banks
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Crime and State in Papua New Guinea
Sinclair Dineen
Deconstructing Violence in Papua New Guinea: the primacy of local definitions
Cyndi Banks
"The Thing Grows Everywhere": Spark Brus - Study of a Crime
Henry Ivarature
Arresting Instances: The Generative Qualities of Penal Discipline and Law in Papua New Guinea
Adam Reed
Raskolling: Papua New Guinea Sociality as Contested Political Order
Karen Sykes
Street Begging in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian Underclass?
Richard Sikani
Disputing Resolution: Differing Responses to Two Plane Crashes
Tony Crook