European Criminal Justice and Policy

Volume 7 deals with European criminal justice and policy. Reviewing the policy (background) with respect to different phases in the criminal justice chain, the contributions range from looking into the extension of criminalization in the sphere of trafficking in human beings and labour exploitation to the operability of cross-border execution of sentences involving deprivation of liberty. Most contributions look into the need to develop a conceptual framework to support future policy making, pointing to the lack thereof with respect to liability of legal persons, ne bis in idem as an EU principle, cross-border effect of disqualifications and cooperation with private security actors. One contribution looks into the public expenditure in different phases of the criminal justice chain, based on a case study on the public expenditure of Belgian drug policy. Finally, one contribution analyses the specific European and Chinese interrogation rules from a historical and comparative perspective to provide a solid context for the current situation and support future legal reforms.