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Contemporary Challenges and Alternatives to International Criminal Justice
(8th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists, Maastricht, 10-11 June 2021)
2022 || Paperback || Renata Barbosa e.a. || Maklu, Uitgever
The system of international criminal justice was established in response to gross human rights violations committed during World War II. Despite its development over the past seven decades, challenges and critiques remain unresolved or have subsequently emerged, particularly in the context of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Key issues include amnesties, immunities, controversial acquittals, non-cooperation, interpretative fragmentation, and cultural clashes. Criticism emerged as a rea...
EU Criminal Policy: Advances and Challenges
2022 || Paperback || Gert Vermeulen e.a. || Maklu, Uitgever
Until the end of the 1990s, EU integration in the area of criminal law centred primarily around the regional deepening of traditional judicial cooperation in criminal matters and the development of law enforcement cooperation (including the setting up of Europol as a support agency). By the end of the 1990s respectively 2000s, the EU also gained (limited) supranational competence in the areas of substantive respectively procedural criminal law. Both judicial and law enforcement cooperation we...
Legitimate by Nature?
Examining the Legitimisation Activities Implemented by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
2022 || Hardcover || Claire M.H. Boost || Eleven international publishing
International crimes cause widespread victimisation and destruction, leading to social disruption that may take generations to repair. Over the years, the international community has established international courts to end the culture of impunity in relation to such crimes and to enforce a culture of accountability. A critical success factor for these courts is to ensure that they are perceived as legitimate in post-conflict societies.
Established after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi eth...
Blaming the Addicted Brain
Building bridges between criminal law and neuroscientific perspectives on addiction
2022 || Hardcover || Anna Elisabeth Goldberg || Eleven international publishing
Addiction is pervasively present within the criminal justice sector, resulting in legal professionals regularly dealing with addicted defendants. Yet addiction is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, resulting in controversies regarding its conceptualisation, and thus difficulties in addressing addiction-related crime in court. Over the last decades, addiction has increasingly been conceptualised as a brain disease, which arguably could alter the law’s current approach towards the crimin...
European Arrest Warrant
Practice in Greece, the Netherlands and Poland
2022 || Paperback || Renata Barbosa e.a. || Eleven international publishing
What practical problems are at stake in current EAW surrender proceedings? The research project Improving Mutual Recognition of European Arrest Warrants through Common Practical Guidelines of which the three country reports for Greece, the Netherlands and Poland are now published, is a follow-up of an earlier project that led to the publication of The European Arrest Warrant and In Absentia Judgments, Maastricht Law Series No.12 In AbsentiEAW. This project is broader than in absentia alone an...
Improving the European Arrest Warrant
2022 || Paperback || André Klip e.a. || Eleven international publishing
The ImprovEAW-project concerns European Arrest Warrant proceedings in seven Member States (Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania). Maastricht Law Series No. 23 contains the country reports for Greece, the Netherlands and Poland. ImprovEAW is a follow up to an earlier project that focused on In Absentia Judgments (Maastricht Law Series No. 12). This book looks at various other aspects of the EAW surrender procedure that are problematic in practice, such as the ...
Age of consent legislation in Europe and China
A cross-jurisdictional perspective
2022 || Paperback || Guangxing Zhu || Maklu, Uitgever
Age of consent refers to the age below which it is prohibited to engage in sexual activities with a child. The legislators always need to keep a balance between protecting children from sexual abuse and respecting their sexual autonomy while setting the age boundary. In addition, as a legal concept, age of consent is closely related with the construction of childhood and once set, it affects the age at which children engage in sex.
The age of consent legislation in Europe have been revised tr...
The Transfer of Criminal Proceedings in the European Union
An exploration of the current practice and of possible ways for improvement, based on practitioners' views
2022 || Paperback || Pieter Verrest e.a. || Eleven international publishing
A transfer of criminal proceedings may take place between a judicial authority from one Member State and a judicial authority in another Member State when it is in the interest of a proper administration of justice that a criminal offence is further investigated and prosecuted in the second Member State.
There was a general feeling among experts on judicial cooperation in the Member States that the current practice of transferring criminal proceedings could and should be improved. Researchers...