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 Dinnen -- Deconstructing violence in Papua New Guinea : the primacy of local definitions / Cyndi Banks -- 'The thing grows everywhere' : spak 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 Guinean 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
