The emergent EU criminal policy: Identifying the species
This article analyses the European Commission's Communication of September 2011, "Towards an EU Criminal Policy", in an attempt to identify more precisely the nature and role of what is now commonly referred to as "EU criminal law" and to extrapolate some theoretical foundation for the development of criminal law at the European level. The analysis is framed around three major tensions in contemporary criminal law development - criminalisation versus soft compliance, security versus justice and rights protection, and globalisation versus local diversity - leading in turn to three main questions: why use criminal law, with what risks, and why at the EU level?
Journal/Publisher: European Law Review
Co-author/s: Christopher HARDING
Publication type: Article
Number of pages/Page range: 758-770
Language/s (content): English
Date of publication: 06-12-12
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