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1 - European Union and Council of Europe

Special Focus on Criminal Law

from Part I - Foundations of European Criminal Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

By
Krisztina Karsai  and
Liane Wörner
Edited by
Kai Ambos  and
Peter Rackow
Kai Ambos
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Peter Rackow
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Summary

European Criminal Law in fact includes EU Law, influenced by European institutions and stemming from Member States agreements. At the same time, it is Council-of-Europe–inspired Law be it through minimum guarantees by the ECHR or through the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) influence on national criminal laws and procedures. Yet, one searches in vain for a European Criminal Code. Against the rumor that in consequence, European Criminal Law as such does not exist, the first chapter seeks to put up the umbrella and discuss and reveal sources and resources of current European Criminal Law and the intersections of EU Law on the one side and Council-of-Europe–inspired Law on the other side. That will in the end offer a panoramic view constituting European Criminal Law as the sum of European Union law imposing sanctions applicable in all Member States together with (Europeanised) national criminal law influenced by European law and Council-of-Europe inspired and set against European institutions and instruments that aim at ensuring effective criminal prosecution.

Keywords

European criminal lawproportionalityEU policysupranationalitycrime controlhuman rightsglobalisationdigital revolutionius puniendithird pillarprinciple of legality
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The Cambridge Companion to European Criminal Law , pp. 3 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Brodowski, D., ‘European Criminal Justice: From Mutual Recognition to Coherence’, in Carrera, S., Curtin, D. and Geddes, A. (eds.), 20 Years Anniversary of the Tampere Programme. Europeanisation Dynamics of the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, San Domenico di Fiesole: European University Institute, 2020, pp. 225–238.Google Scholar
Burchard, C., Die Konstitutionalisierung der gegenseitigen Anerkennung. Die strafjustizielle Zusammenarbeit in Europa im Lichte des Unionsverfassungsrechts, Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Bondt, W., ‘Evidence-Based EU Criminal Policy Making: In Search of Matching Data’, (2014) 20 Eur J Crim Policy Res, 23–49.Google Scholar
Jescheck, H. H., ‘Die Strafgewalt übernationaler Gemeinschaften’, (1953) 65 ZStW, 498.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kettunen, M., Legitimising European Criminal Law, Berlin: Springer, 2020.Google Scholar
Vogel, J., ‘Europäische Kriminalpolitik – europäische Strafrechtsdogmatik’, (2002) 149 GA, 517–534.Google Scholar

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