Part One
1 Introduction, Nicola Padfield, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Frieder Dünkel
2 The European dimension to the release of sentenced prisoners, John R. Spencer (University of Cambridge) and Dirk van Zyl Smit (University of Nottingham)
Part Two: Country perspectives
3 Austria, Karin Bruckmüller (University of Vienna) and Veronika Hofinger (Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology, Vienna)
4 Belgium, Sonja Snacken (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Kristel Beyens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Marie-Aude Beernaert (University of Louvain)
5 England and Wales, Nicola Padfield (University of Cambridge)
6 Finland, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä (Director of the National Research Institute of Legal Policy in Finland)
7 France, Kim Reuflet (Judge and currently a Vice President of the Tribunal de grande instance at Bobigny)
8 Germany, Frieder Dünkel (University of Greifswald) and Ineke Pruin
9 Greece, Leonidas K. Cheliotis (Queen Mary, University of London) with the assistance of Ioannis Papageorgiou (PhD student, University of Edinburgh)
10 Ireland, Thomas O’Malley (NUI Galway, Ireland)
11 Italy, Alessandra Gualazzi (University of Urbino) and Chiara Mancuso (University of Palermo)
12 The Netherlands, Martin Moerings (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
13 Scotland, Douglas Thomson (Consultant, McArthur Stanton, Dumbarton)
14 Slovenia, Katja Šugman Stubbs (University of Ljubljana) and Matjaž Ambrož (University of Ljubljana)
15 Spain, José Cid (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Beatriz Tébar (Lawyer for the Catalan Public Administration)
Part Three: Converging themes
16 Concluding thoughts, Frieder Dünkel, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Nicola Padfield
