1st Edition

Organised Crime, Criminal Procedure, and Prisons Prosecuting and Punishing Organised Criminal Groups

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores a range of topics relating to the prosecution and trial of organised crime and the punishment, especially imprisonment, of members of organised criminal groups. Organised crime poses particular challenges to the criminal justice system. While much of the attention of policy-makers, legislators, law enforcement, and the media is on criminalisation and investigation, much less... Read more

1. Introduction
Andreas Schloenhardt

PART 1: ORGANISED CRIME AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

2. The challenge of organised crime to criminal proceedings
Bettina Weisser

3. Obstruction of Justice in the Context of Organised Crime
Benedikt Grünert

4. Non-conviction-based confiscation as a means to combat organised crime
Jonathan Macziola

5. Protection of Victim-Witnesses of Trafficking in Persons: Problems, Principles, and Practice
Joseph Lelliott

Part 2: International Cooperation

6. International frameworks for cooperation in organised crime cases
Andreas Schloenhardt & Genevieve Rule

7. The European Arrest Warrant: A model for use in the global fight against organised crime?
Lena Wasser

8. Joint Investigation Teams in transnational organised crime cases and their potential impact on human rights
Marilù Porchia

Part 3: Organised Crime and Prisons

9. Organised Crime and Prisons
Andreas Schloenhardt & Monika Stempkowski

Chapter 10: Italy’s ‘41 bis’ special prison regime for leading organised crime figures in view of European Court of Human Rights’ case-law and international prison standards
Gianmarco Bondi

Biography

Andreas Schloenhardt (PhD, Adelaide; chief editor) is Professor of Criminal Law at The University of Queensland and Honorary Professor of Foreign and International Criminal Law at the University of Vienna.

Bettina Weisser (Dr jur, University of Konstanz) is Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the Institute for Comparative Criminal Law at the University of Cologne.

Monika Stempkowski (Dr ius, University of Vienna) is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna. She is also a trained clinical psychologist and practices as a mediator.

Gian Ege (Dr ius, University of Zurich) is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Zurich.