Th is Handbook should be understood as part of a trilogy of edited books addressing the criminological study of war, two of which are ours and one of which is not, but each has been infl uenced by a seminal book chapter from Ruth Jamieson (1998) entitled ‘Towards a criminology of war in Europe’. We say more about the infl uences of this work in our introduction and conclusion, but for now let us bring you up to date with the more recent publications attendant to this Handbook. Th e Criminology of War by Jamieson (2014) is a substantial reader that compiles a collection of authoritative essays drawing together some extant literature relating to war as elementary criminological subject matter, arranged across several key themes. Th is varied collection of essays refl ects past and present debates from both within and outwith criminology that have addressed the changing nature of war, its gendered elements, the extremities of genocide, and the aftermath of violence, evidencing that war does indeed have an interdisciplinary place within the criminological cannon. Within Criminology and War: Transgressing the Borders we also looked to compliment the landscape outlaid by Jamieson (1998, 2014) by adding new chapters which jointly theorised war, law, and crime; connected war and criminal justice as overlapping criminological domains; drew attention to the prevalence of sexual violence at war; and illustrated war trauma through the visual medium of images. Within this current text, Th e Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War , we now seek to develop these collective themes further by providing a broader assortment of original chapters from a wide and diverse selection of authors from both within and outwith criminology. Set alongside one another these three books provide a fi rm footing for students, researchers, and academics to embark upon a criminological study of war