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Swiss Bank (Customer) Secrecy and the International Exchange of Information
Swiss banking secrecy dates back more than 300 years. In 1934, the Federal Act on Banks and Savings Banks made the unauthorized disclosure of... -
Young People, Antisocial Behavior and Unemployment: Toward a Trans-Disciplinary Analysis of Criminalization
This article considers the diverse use of the concept of criminalization in criminological and socio-legal analyses, the meanings attached to it, and...
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The Short-Term Impact of Formal Controls on Subsequent Offending and Future Formal Controls in a German and UK City
The study of sanctioning effects has a rich history in deterrence and labeling theory. Most analyses have only used official data to study these...
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Policing the Environment: The Prosecution of Wildlife and Environmental Crimes
Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual... -
Blockchain Civitas Dei and Civitas Terrena: Governance Experiments as a Problem of ‘Frontier Epistemology’ and ‘Heuristic Appraisal’
The paper focuses on the philosophical challenges of governance over trustless ledgers, namely Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions in El Salvador. Blockchain...
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Sha** Cryptocurrency Gatekeepers with a Regulatory “Trial and Error”
In the past fifteen years, cryptocurrencies have grown from a whitepaper released on a mailing list to an ecosystem supporting millions of... -
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Serving a Sentence in Italy: Old and New Challenges
The Italian system of the enforcement of the sentences has been shaped, since the enter into force of the Italian Constitution in 1948, on the... -
Enforcement of Policies Against the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in Italy
The chapter reviews the Italian state of the art in the fight against illicit tobacco trade and the various phenomena related to it. Starting from an... -
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Child Soldiers, Justice and Peacebuilding: A Dialectical Analysis of the Conventional Criminal Justice System and African Indigenous Jurisprudence
Justice processes involving childrenChildren accused of war-related crimes and other violations of international humanitarian and human rightsHuman... -
Criminal records versus rehabilitation and expungement: a randomised controlled trial
PurposeWhat is the effect of having a criminal record compared to having the criminal record expunged in exchange for participating in a...
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Enactment, Scope of Application, and Enforcement of the Cartel Act
This first chapter is an introduction to the Swiss Cartel Act, its basic concepts such as the undertaking, which determines its scope of application... -
‘The Best Interests of the Child’ Under the Libyan Legal System
The primary concern raised by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in its 2003 response to Libya’s Second Periodic Report forms the basis... -
Summation and Conclusions
The final chapter of the work draws together the main strands of discussion in both Part One and Part Two. Strategic management of prisons since 1945... -
The Legality Principle: Its Link to the EAW, Jurisdiction and Forum Choices
This chapter discusses to what extent the two foreseeability complications and their link to the EAW are recognised as legality problems in light of... -
Governing Prisons
This chapter will explore: the challenges of maintaining order in prison; international and domestic rules on prison governance; inspection,... -
Sentencing Elsewhere: Structuring Sentencing Discretion in Post-communist Europe
Former socialist European countries (FSECs) have largely been overlooked in the scholarly debate on sentencing disparities and structuring sentencing...