The Emergent EU Criminal Policy: Identifying the Species

Christopher Stephen Peter Harding; Joanna Banach-Gutierrez

The Emergent EU Criminal Policy: Identifying the Species

Christopher Stephen Peter Harding
, Joanna Banach-Gutierrez

Department of Law & Criminology

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Abstract

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 deployment 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 EU level?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	758-770
Number of pages	13
Journal	European Law Review
Volume	37
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2012

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criminal law
criminal procedure
EU law
harmonisation

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