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This article presents an introduction of the content of the Volume 2 of the book "Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance." The volume is organized into four thematic sections. The first section presents three quantitative studies of prominent criminological issues: criminal sentencing, communities and crime, and fear of crime. Cassia Spohn and Miriam DeLone contribute to the literature on courts and sentencing, extending Spohn's other work and other studies empirically demonstrating the conditional nature of the influence of race and other extra-legal factors in criminal sentencing decisions. Barbara Warner and Pamela Wilcox Rountree articulate a exciting and provocative new theoretical model for research on community social organization, community-level culture, and crime the cultural attenuation model. Next, three excellent ethnographies examine legal and formal social control institutions. The first two ethnographies describe key transformations in law and policing. Albert J. Meehan, one of the most careful and insightful ethnographers of policing in American sociology, brings us an examination of how the proliferation of information technologies transforms the police subculture.