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This article provides an overview of the sub-area of new economic sociology, (NES), known as �contested markets�. The involvement of both interests and values in the confection of markets has always been a leitmotif of economic sociology and many authors have dealt with the different ways in which markets have been challenged. The very organization of markets involves exclusions which at any time may provide the basis for contestations. Nevertheless, demographic trends, the rapid advance of the scientific and technological frontier, and the privatization of what were previously considered key public goods, have led to a more fundamental questioning of the acceptability of extending markets into new areas of social and private life. We review the different contributions of NES to this theme and, in particular, examine the major contribution provided by Philippe Steiner and colleagues to an understanding of the mechanisms put in place to deal with contestation in the construction of markets. A related, important, contribution on the dynamic of illegal markets by Beckert and Wehinger and the degree to which these can be included within the framework of market analysis, is also discussed. The article concludes with a discussion of Steiner�s original contribution on the �don� to an understanding the hybridization of reciprocity and exchange in the emergence of contested markets.

Beginning with the events which led up to it, considers the trajectory of latter-day agribusiness. Starts with considering food shortages and per capita food consumption of staple foods, to the place of patents and GMO foods in the last decade. Further, looks at markets and suppliers, often entire nations who have retooled for the purposes of offering so-called non-traditional exports. Focuses on Brazil as a prime example. Also looks at the other players of agribusiness, like China and Wal Mart. S. Fullmer

Abstract: Reasoning and Rehabilitation is a cognitive‐behavioual training programme for offenders, accredited by the Home Office for use with offenders in prison and on custodial sentences in England and Wales. Evidence the programme achieves significant reductions in offending is questionable. A matched control study is reported which used both offending and psychometric outcome measures. Findings for reconviction are mixed. Offenders whose attitudes changed pro‐socially were more likely to be reconvicted than were offenders whose attitudes did not change positively. This casts doubt on whether reconviction is reduced because of attitudinal change, and on the use of measures of attitudinal change in evaluation.

This article focusses on the challenges which current processes of global restructuring represent for the leading food industry firms, exploring, in addition, the hypothesis that both the new bio(techno)logy paradigm and novel patterns of food demand (nutriceuticals, organics) accentuate the vulnerability of firms organised around this link in the global agrofood chain. Two dimensions of the new demand oriented food system which assumed dominance as from the mid–70s can be analytically separated out. The leading food industry players can be said have responded well to the first dimension which involved above all the transition to multi–product demand and innovation oriented firm strategies. The second phase is not so much focused on the diversification of demand as on new contents of demand. These either push food further along the substitutionist trajectory up to the frontier with pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutriceuticals and functional foods, or radically challenge industrial transformation, harnessing preservation technologies to the reintroduction of the agricultural product as final food In this second phase the final food sector would appear to be in danger of being squeezed between the extremes of demand and supply. On the one hand, it is largely passive in relation to the drama of the new biotechnology paradigm, and on the other it lacks the nuanced knowledge of global demand made possible by information technology which provides a decisive advantage to retail. This second dimension of the new agro–food system places the future of the traditional giants of the food industry in considerable doubt.