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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of personal participation in criminal proceedings and in absentia trials. Going beyond the accused-centred perspective of default proceedings, it not only examines the consequences of absence in various types of criminal proceedings, but also the fair trial safeguards allowing personal contributions during trials, as well as in pre-trial inquiries, higher instances and transborder procedures. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach and employing comparative-law methodologies, the book presents a cross-section of twelve European criminal justice systems with regard to the requirements set forth by constitutional, international and EU law.
The book deals with illicit trafficking in the Mediterranean, seen as a borderline issue between mobility and security under a strongly interdisciplinary approach. The opening part is dedicated to issues that transversally concern illegal trafficking: criminological, criminal law, criminal procedure, but also international law issues. This part presents a kind of general theory of illegal trafficking, showing its recurring aspects and identifying the legal and criminal-political issues that would be best addressed by a unified approach to the matter. The other parts are devoted to presenting, instead, a special part overview of illegal trafficking. The second and the third section are devote...
The aim of this book is to delve into the impact of the Information and Communications Technologies in the criminal prevention and investigation, by addressing the state of the art of different measures and its implementation in different legal systems vis à vis the protection of human rights. Yet this research not only pursues a diagnostic goal but furthermore aims at providing a reconstruction of this problematic area in light of modern, human rights-oriented notion of criminal justice. This broadens the scope of this investigation, which encompasses both unprecedented safeguards to traditional, or anyway widely recognized individual rights and the emergence of new rights, such as the right to informational self-determination, and the right to information technology privacy. The book addresses the problems and potentials in the areas of criminal prevention and criminal investigation, taking into account that due to electronic surveillance and the progress in the use of big data for identifying risks, the borders between preventive and investigative e-measures is not clear-cut.
This book proposes and outlines a comprehensive framework for judicial protection in transnational criminal proceedings that ensures the right to judicial review without hampering the effective functioning of international cooperation in criminal matters. It examines a broad range of potential approaches in the context of selected national criminal justice systems, and offers a comparative analysis of EU Member States and non-Member States alike. The book particularly focuses on the differences between cooperation within the EU on the one hand and cooperation with third states on the other, and on the consequences of this distinction for the scope of judicial review.
This book discusses issues relating to the application of AI and computational modelling in criminal proceedings from a European perspective. Part one provides a definition of the topics. Rather than focusing on policing or prevention of crime – largely tackled by recent literature – it explores ways in which AI can affect the investigation and adjudication of crime. There are two main areas of application: the first is evidence gathering, which is addressed in Part two. This section examines how traditional evidentiary law is affected by both new ways of investigation – based on automated processes (often using machine learning) – and new kinds of evidence, automatically generated b...
If subjecting war to law is one of the most important legal achievements of the 20th century, progressing further in that direction is one of the most important challenges for the 21st century. The problems it poses are many: the term “war” has formally fallen into disuse and we talk about “peacekeeping”; armies are today the product of cooperation between states and international organizations; private contractors increasingly participate in warlike activities, as the case of the Iraq war demonstrates; and the lines between war and very serious forms of crime (terrorism, organized crime) are increasingly blurred. This volume compiles the contributions presented at XVth International Congress on Social Defence, and tackle the criminal-legal issues raised by these new scenarios. It constitutes an innovative volume, gathering together the work of both academic and military authors, who have drawn on their theoretical and practical experience.
The aim of the book is to resolve the question of whether multiple sanctioning systems are contrary to the ne bis in idem under the regulation provided by Protocol 7 to the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The first part is a comparative study regarding the lawfulness of multiple sanctioning systems under the ne bis in idem, studying the evolution and the current state of the case law of the United States Supreme Court, the Canadian Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The second part of the book critically analyses three problems with the case law of the ECtHR and the CJEU. Part three deals with reconceptualizing the prohibition of multiple punishment and the prohibition of multiple prosecutions. Finally, the fourth part addresses other possible protections against multiple sanctioning systems. Two other safeguards that limit multiple sanctioning systems are the prohibition of disproportionate sanctions and the right to be tried within a reasonable time.
El estancamiento del proyecto constitucional europeo nos ha instalado en una nueva fase que se caracteriza, de un lado, por el protagonismo del TJCE a través de decisiones tan importantes como las de los casos Pupino o Comisión . Consejo y, de otro, por la paralización de la otrora frenética actividad legislativa suprnacional. Este volumen atiende a ambos fenómenos. Por una parte, el lector podrá encontrar en él cumplida información acerca del significado que las últimas sentencias del Tribunal de Luxemburgo tienen para el Derecho penal europeo. Y, por otra, un análisis en profundidad sobre los grandes temas del Espacio judicial europeo: su posible conformación como un sistema federal de Derecho penal supranacional; los actores e instituciones que lo componen; las relaciones entre instituciones nacionales y supranacionales; los fines y problemas de la armonización; los diferentes modelos en que puede plasmarse el Derecho procesal penal europeo; y, por encima de todo, su legitimidad y sus límites.
El acontecimiento más importante que en estos momentos se está produciendo en el ordenamiento jurídico penal es su proceso de integración dentro de un sistema superracional como es el Espacio de Libertad, Seguridad y Justicia. Ello plantea importantes retos al legislador y a la Ciencia del derecho penal que está obligada a aportar soluciones e ideas.Las contribuciones que reúne el presente volumen aceptan este reto iniciado ya con la publicación del trabajo sobre Eurodelitos, en el primer volumen de la colección Marino Barbero Santos. Si entonces se aportaban propuestas de armonización en el marco del derecho penal económico europeo, ahora se ofrecen tipos comunes relativos a los delitos de estafa y corrupción. Más, al hilo de estas propuestas, Fraude y corrupción en el derecho penal económico europeo contiene igualmente estudios de derecho comparado, reflexiones de política legislativa y novedosas aportaciones teóricas sobre dos sectores de la criminalidad siempre importantes y vivos en la práctica.
English summary: Does the intensified endeavour to achieve security in Europe conflict with the preservation of civil rights and liberties? Or is the new direction that civil rights and liberties are currently taking a philosophical, societal imperative? Is an interest in a free society supplanting the hard-won liberty of the individual? Is the security of a society without individual liberty at all conceivable? Can these observations and reflections even be understood as an organic development in modern societies, and, consequently, the European constitutional state already on the way to becoming a security state? Does penal law, for example, which otherwise has maximum guarantees in the in...