The Governance of Criminal Justice in the European Union

Edited by Ricardo Pereira, Reader in Law, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK, Annegret Engel, Senior Lecturer of EU Law, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden and Samuli Miettinen, Associate Professor of Transnational Law, Tallinn University, Estonia

Contents:

1 Introduction 1
Ricardo Pereira, Annegret Engel and Samuli Mietinnen

PART I MULTI-LEVEL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION:
CONSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS
2 After Brexit: Reframing EU-UK cooperation in criminal matters 17
Valsamis Mitsilegas
3 Opting in or opting out? The EU’s variable geometry in the
area of freedom, security and justice 39
Annegret Engel
4 The boundaries between the EU and Member States’
competences in criminal matters: reflections on
post-Lisbon developments 56
Kerttuli Lingenfelter
5 EU criminal justice and the diversity of legal cultures in Europe 82
Renaud Colson and Stewart Field

PART II MODELS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE
COOPERATION AND THE GOVERNANCE OF
SPECIFIC CRIMES
6 Transnational responses to trafficking in human beings in
Europe: models for more inclusive governance mechanisms 103
Chloé Brière
7 Building an effective control of financial crime? The
role of criminal law and transnational cooperation in the
European Union 127
Christopher Harding
8 Better cybersecurity, better democracy? The public interest case for
amending the Convention on Cybercrime n.185 and the
Directive 2013/40/EU on Attacks against Information Systems 148
Audrey Guinchard
9 The development of environmental criminal law
enforcement in the European Union: from institutional
fragmentation to European environmental criminal justice
governance? 181
Ricardo Pereira

PART III PROCEDURAL RIGHTS FOR ASSERTION
OF PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE IN EU
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
10 Access to documents under EU law and the area of
freedom, security and justice: legal framework and judicial
practice 210
Petri Freundlich
11 Children’s rights and child participation in criminal proceedings 233
Wendy De Bondt and Heleen Lauwereys

Index