ARTICLES: 1. Editorial 2. Matti Joutsen - Fifth European colloquium on criminology; Bled, Slovenia, 26-28 September 1996 3. Matti Joutsen - Recent trends in crime in Western Europe 4. Jerzy Jasinski - Crime in Central and East European Countries 5. Katalin Gönczöl - Controlled deviance: a strategy for crime prevention in Hungary 6. Günther Kaiser - Crime policy from a West European perspective 7. Jana Válková - Punishment and resocialization: a case of the Czech Republic 8. Ando Leps - Organized crime in Estonia: its historical preconditions 9. Françoise Tulkens - Criminal justice in transition: some provisional notes on the crisis in the Belgian system 10. John Braithwaite - Commentary: law, morality and restorative justice 11. Crime institute profile: E.U. Savona - TRANSCRIME, Research group on Transnational Crime, School of Law, University of Trento