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

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

Although Article 23(5) of EU Regulation 1/2003 provides that competition law fines ‘shall not be of a criminal law nature’, this has not prevented certain c

The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive inte

European criminal law is explained as a multi-level field of law, in which the European Union has a normative influence on substantive criminal law, criminal pr