Alternative Systems of Crime Control

The typ­ic­al tri­al-ori­ented sys­tems of crim­in­al justice that are primar­ily based on the strict ap­plic­a­tion of sub­stant­ive crim­in­al law have reached their func­tion­al and lo­gistical lim­its in most parts of the mod­ern leg­al world. As a res­ult, new sanc­tion mod­els, less form­al, ad­min­is­trat­ive, and dis­cre­tion­ary case dis­pos­als, plea bar­gain­ing arrange­ments, and oth­er al­tern­at­ive pro­ced­ur­al and trans­ition­al justice mech­an­isms have emerged at un­pre­ced­en­ted levels in nation­al and in­ter­na­tion­al leg­al or­ders af­fil­i­ated both with the civil law and the com­mon law tra­di­tion. These normative con­structs and prac­tices aim at ab­bre­vi­at­ing, sim­pli­fy­ing, or cir­cum­vent­ing the crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion and pro­sec­u­tion. They seek to en­hance the ef­fect­ive­ness of con­flict res­ol­u­tion pro­ceed­ings and to shift the fo­cus of crime con­trol from re­pres­sion to pre­ven­tion. The ana­lys­is of these top­ics, which il­lus­trate the gen­er­al paradigm shift cur­rently tak­ing place in crim­in­al law, exceeds the scope of a single re­search con­tri­bu­tion. For this reas­on, the Max Planck In­sti­tute for For­eign and In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­in­al Law (Freiburg, Ger­many), the School of Law of the Queen Mary Uni­versity Lon­don (UK), and the European & In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­in­al Law In­sti­tute (Athens, Greece) are col­lab­or­at­ing on a more in-depth ex­plor­a­tion of these is­sues. As the first pub­lic­a­tion of this joint re­search agenda, the present them­at­ic­ally ed­ited volume ad­opts a gen­er­al ap­proach on al­tern­at­ive, in­form­al, pre­vent­ive, and trans­ition­al types of crim­in­al justice and the le­git­im­acy of new sanc­tion mod­els in the glob­al risk so­ci­ety. It does so mainly by fo­cus­ing on dis­tinct­ive as­pects of na­tion­al, transna­tion­al, and in­ter­na­tion­al crime con­trol sys­tems as well as on the spe­cial re­gimes of counter-ter­ror­ism measures and se­cur­ity law. The com­mon pur­pose of the stud­ies con­duc­ted for this re­search pro­ject is the com­par­at­ive, mod­el-based, and eval­u­at­ive (le­git­im­acy-ori­ented) ex­am­in­a­tion and ana­lys­is of the top­ics at is­sue. The re­search­ers in­volved in this pro­ject are ex­perts and in­ter­na­tion­ally ac­claimed schol­ars in this field. Their re­search res­ults were presen­ted and dis­cussed at an interna­tion­al con­fer­ence held on 26-27 Janu­ary 2018 at Middle Temple in Lon­don, UK. With all three in­sti­tu­tions deeply en­gaged in the ex­plor­a­tion of the form­al lim­its of crim­in­al justice and pun­ish­ment, this re­search col­lab­or­a­tion is ex­pec­ted to con­tin­ue with new stud­ies and co-or­gan­ized in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences in Freiburg (June 2018), with fo­cus on the pre­ven­tion, in­vest­ig­a­tion, and sanc­tion­ing of eco­nom­ic crime and in Athens (2019), with fo­cus on cy­ber­crime.

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2018
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Ambach, P. (2018). Reparation Proceedings at the International Criminal Court - A Means to Repair or Recipe for Disappointment? In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 109–131). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Bachmaier, L. (2018). Countering Terrorism: Suspects without Suspicion and (Pre-)Suspects under Surveillance. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 171–191). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Billis, E., & Knust, N. (2018). Alternative Types of Procedure and the Formal Limits of National Criminal Justice: Aspects of Social Legitimacy. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. Mylonopoulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 39–58). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Brants, C. (2018). Prosecutorial Sanctions in the Netherlands. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 59–76). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Delpeuch, T., & Ross, J. (2018). Crime-Fighting and Prevention as Competing Approaches to Collective Juvenile Violence - A comparative Study of the United States and France. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 77–88). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Jeßberger, F., & Andrzejewski, N. (2018). 'It Is Not a Crime to Be on the List, but ...' - Targeted Sanctions and Criminal Law. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 192–202). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Mitsilegas, V. (2018). 'Security Law' and Preventive Justice in the Legal Architecture of the European Union. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 203–216). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Mylōnopulos, C. C. (2018). Bargain Practices and the Fundamental Values of the ECHR. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 89–105). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Sieber, U. (2018). The New Architecture of Security Law - Crime Control in the Global Risk Society -. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. Mylonopoulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 1–35). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Sieber, U., Mitsilegas, V., Mylonopoulos, C., Billis, E., & Knust, N. (2018). Foreword. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. Mylonopoulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. V-VI). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Stewart, J. K. (2018). The Imposition of Penal Sanctions at the Level of the International Criminal Court and Its Relationship to Other Forms of Justice Delivery. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 132–139). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Thaman, S. C. (2018). The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Erosion of Privacy Protection. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 217–282). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Theodorakis, N. (2018). Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Alternative Nature of Sanctioning Procedures in the UN Sanctions Committees and within the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 283–306). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Vavoula, N. (2018). Prevention, Surveillance, and the Transformation of Citizenship in the 'Security Union': The Case of Foreign Terrorist Fighters. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 307–334). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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Vervaele, J. (2018). Transitional Criminal Justice in Colombia and Complementarity Policy under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In U. Sieber, V. Mitsilegas, C. C. Mylōnopulos, E. Billis, & N. Knust (Eds.), Alternative systems of crime control: national, transnational, and international dimensions (Vol. S 161, pp. 140–168). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

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2018
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Sieber, U., Mitsilegas, V., Mylonopoulos, C., Billis, E., & Knust, N. (Eds.). (2018). Alternative systems of crime control (Vol. S 161) Schriftenreihe des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht: Strafrechtliche Forschungsberichte. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. doi:10.30709/978-3-86113-786-3

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