Investigating and Preventing Crime in the Digital Era (eBook)

The aim of this book is to delve into the impact of the Information and Communications Technologies in the criminal prevention and investigation, by addressing the state of the art of different measures and its implementation in different legal systems vis à vis the protection of human rights. Yet this research not only pursues a diagnostic goal but furthermore aims at providing a reconstruction of this problematic area in light of modern, human rights-oriented notion of criminal justice. This broadens the scope of this investigation, which encompasses both unprecedented safeguards to traditional, or anyway widely recognized individual rights and the emergence of new rights, such as the right to informational self-determination, and the right to information technology privacy.

Lorena Bachmaier Winter is Full Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid, Department of procedure and criminal law since 1996. She has written extensively in the area of litigation, fair trial rights, justice systems and procedure published in more than seven languages. She is regular speaker in international conferences. She is a member of the most relevant international academic associations, as AIDP, the IACL or the European Law Institute, and member of the editorial board of numerous law reviews. She has been visiting professor or researcher in foreign institutes and universities as, for example, the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) or the Universities of Berkeley, Harvard and Stanford (USA). Her present research is focused on comparative criminal procedure, rule of law and judicial independence, human rights and procedure, and the EU process of legal harmonization. Her last book published with Springer within this collection was 'The European Public Prosecutor. The challenges ahead', 2018.