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.
Research focuses: Functional limits of criminal law and new forms of social control Status of project: Ongoing Project duration: Project start: 2017
Project end: 2020- Group by:2018
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.
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
Collected EditionSieber, 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
Contribution to a Collected editionSieber, 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.
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.
EnglishSieber, 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.
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.
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
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 logisti-cal limits in most parts of the modern legal world. As a result, new sanction models, less formal, administrative, and discretionary case disposals, plea bargaining ar-rangements, 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 norma-tive 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 main-ly 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 inter-national 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.