Developing a Criminal Justice Area in the European Union
Study
15-01-2014
This study addresses the development of an EU criminal justice area. By exploring key concepts and features of criminal processes in comparative perspective, it seeks to provide ideas for such an area. Because the situation in the member states is diverse, independent concepts guided by the study findings are explored.
Study
Executive summary
External author
Marianne L. Wade (Institute of Judicial Administration, University of Birmingham, the UK, in association with the Institut für Migrations- und Sicherheitsstudien, Berlin, Germany)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- citizens' Europe
- comparative law
- cooperation policy
- criminal law
- criminal liability
- criminal procedure
- economic geography
- EU Member State
- European construction
- European judicial area
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- justice
- juvenile delinquency
- LAW
- legal system
- organisation of the legal system
- prison system
- rights of the defence
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- sources and branches of the law