Towards a Rational Legislative Evaluation in Criminal Law

Adán Nieto Martín and Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero are Professors at the Institute of European and International Criminal Law at University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Part I Fundamentals of Policy Evaluation: Alberto Muñoz Arenas, Theoretical and Procedural Aspects of the Evaluation of Public Policies.- Ana Pérez Cepeda, Crime Statistics in the European Union.- Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina Gimeno, Economics as a tool in legislative evaluation: cost-analysis, cost-efficacy and cost-benefit.- Part II Comparative Experiences: Samuel Rodríguez Ferrández, Legislative Evaluation in Spain: Its Necessary Application in the Approval of Criminal Law Reforms.- José Becerra Muñoz, Institutional redesign proposal for the preparation of Criminal Policy by the Government. The focus on ex ante evaluations.- Manuel Maroto Calatayud, Criminal policy Evaluation and rationality in legislative procedure: the example of Sweden.- Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero, Codification and Legislative Technique in the United States of America.- Andreas Hoyer, Criminal Law legislation in Germany.- Fernando Guanarteme Sánchez-Lázaro, Evaluation and European Criminal Law: The Evaluation Model of the Commission.- Part III Evaluation and axiological validity: Pablo Rando Casermeiro, Prejudice and intellectual property. Music theft as an example of empirical measurement of damage.- Ana Prieto del Pino, The proportionality principle and its content of rationality in a broad sense: The principle of subsidiarity.- Part IV Evaluation and judicial control: Juan Antonio Lascuraín, Constitutional control of Criminal law.- Luís A. Vélez Rodríguez, Controlling the constitutionality of Criminal law against the onslaught of irrational criminal polity.- Part V Conclusions: Adán Nieto Martín,< A necessary triangle: the science of legislation, the constitutional control of criminal laws and experimental legislation.