The Baltic Region: Insights in Crime and Control.

• Author: Ferrall, Bard R.
• Position: Review

THE BALTIC REGION: INSIGHTS IN CRIME AND CRIME CONTROL (Kauko Aromaa, Ed.) (Oslo: Pax Forlag A/S, 1998) 206 pp. Contributors to this volume from the Scandinavian Studies in Criminology series present findings concerning trends in crime, policing, and imprisonment in the Baltic region (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Scandinavia, and St. Petersburg) and the northwestern region of Russia. This represents a new concern and awareness by Scandinavian criminology with Eastern Europe. A geo-political interconnectedness (reflected by the new Finnish term, the "near-by region") is reemerging between these regions with the end of Soviet rule, while at the same time...