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

EU criminal justice is a fast developing and challenging area of EU law and policy that requires scholars from different disciplines to join forces. This book i

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

EU Criminal Law is perhaps the fastest-growing area of EU law. It is also one of the most contested fields of EU action, covering measures which have a signific

Since the early 1990s, cross-border police and judicial cooperation has become a very important domain of the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty – if accepted