This special issue brings together nineteen topical and innovative papers, researching the boundaries of sexual integrity and affirmative sexual consent, gender violence, and image-based or online sexual abuse, including child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexual deepfakes. It offers an original and nuanced approach to understanding the important legal elements, various agents and harms of topic-related deviant conduct as well as legislative processes aimed at tackling it. In light...

A victim-centred approach urges institutional guarantees to minimize the re-traumatization of victims in criminal investigations and empowers victims as participants and beneficiaries in the criminal procedure. It brings new views to the criminal justice process and transformation to the affected community and the entire society. Such a new approach in criminal law is becoming a trend in investigation and reparation phases in both domestic and international legal discourse.This RIDP libri iss...

Artificial Intelligence systems are used today in several parts of the world to support the administration of criminal justice. The most widespread example concerns “predictive policing”, which aims at foretelling crime before it happens and improving its detection. AI allows geospatial as well as person-based policing and is involved in preventing and uncovering economic crimes such as fraud and money laundering.Especially in the context of crime mapping – or hot-spot analysis –, its...

This book offers insight into the development of the EU in the areas of justice, home affairs and security, embedded in a broader international context. In addition to the main part, dedicated to the EU, the book features chapters on cooperation in the areas concerned at Benelux, Schengen, Council of Europe, NATO, OSCE, G7/G20, OECD and UN levels.The chapter structure is identical for all cooperation levels addressed, discussing their actual policies after sketching their historical developme...

The study of the intersections between technology and crime is a well-established topic for criminal lawyers, gaining increasing significance over time. Initially, in the risk society, and even more so today, in the algorithmic society, the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) bring new complexities to light. AI systems are increasingly involved in perpetrating various kinds of harms. They can serve as new tools for committing crimes or directly cause serious harms to fundamental ...

‘De graad van beschaving van een land kan men afleiden uit de wijze waarop men omgaat met misdaad en uit de wijze waarop men omgaat met daders’ (Churchill)Toen Leo Nardus na een keurig leven in vrijheid in de gevangenis terechtkwam, werd hij geconfronteerd met negatieve opvattingen en stigmatisering van de gedetineerde. Deze ervaring zette hem ertoe aan om een boek te schrijven dat de lezer inzicht biedt en een lans breekt voor de medemens buiten de vrije samenleving.Door niet enkel zijn ...

Deze 45ste uitgave van de pocket Strafrecht bundelt naast het Strafwetboek en het Wetboek van Strafvordering, ook een aantal uittreksels uit de Grondwet, het Gerechtelijk Wetboek en het Europees Verdrag tot bescherming van de rechten van de mens en de fundamentele vrijheden. Bovendien bevat dit zakwetboekje tevens, chronologisch geordend, de bijzondere wetten die een algemeen belang hebben voor het strafrecht of voor de strafvordering. Zowel studenten als rechtspractici (politieambtenaren, ma...