This book takes stock of the development of criminal law in the context of the EC and the EU, and examines whether this has led to a European criminal policy, a

Just a few months after the entry into force of the EU Framework Decision on the fight against organized crime, this book provides an unprecedented analysis of

The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member States in relation to crime an

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In this book legal and criminological scholars offer advanced analyses of the exercise of the substantive criminal law competences of the EU.