Security versus justice? police and judicial cooperation in the European Union (Ashgate, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index
The search for EU criminal law -- where is it headed? / Elspeth Guild and Florian Geyer -- Actors -- Security, freedom and accountability: Europol and Frontex / Sonja Puntscher Riekmann -- Eurojust: a cornerstone of the federal criminal justice system in the EU? / J. Vlastník -- The third pillar and the court of justice: a "praetorian communitarisation" of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters? / Eulalia Sanfrutos Cano -- EU member states: complicity in extraordinary renditions / Judit Tóth -- Concepts and instruments -- EU police cooperation: national sovereignty framed by European security? / Didier Bigo -- Too different to trust? First experiences with the application of the European arrest warrant / Julia Sievers -- Reflexive governance and the EU third pillar: analysis of data protection and criminal law aspects / Gloria González Fuster and Pieter Paepe -- Law and policy -- The competence question: the European community and criminal law / Valsamis Mitsilegas -- The proposal for a council framework decision on certain procedural rights in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union / Mar Jimeno-Bulnes -- The "prüm process": the way forward for EU police cooperation and data exchange? / Rocco Bellanova -- Practice: achievements and obstacles -- Policing a European border region: the case of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion / Toine Spapens -- Uniforms without uniformity: a critical look at European standards in policing / Peter Hobbing -- Third pillar developments from a practitioner's perspective / Richard Lang -- The EU counter-terrorism strategy and human rights in Central Asia: do as I say not as I do? / Susie Alegre -- A possible future -- The reform treaty and justice and home affairs: implications for the common area of freedom, security and justice / Sergio Carrera and Florian Geyer
One of the most dynamic areas of recent EU law has been cooperation in the fields of policing and criminal justice. This book enables readers to understand the changes that have taken place by examining how and why they occurred, along with the subsequent outcomes