Emergence of EU Criminal Law

"Criminal law can no longer be neatly categorised as the product and responsibility of domestic law. That this is true is emphasised by the ever increasing amount of legislation stemming from the European Union (EU) which impacts, both directly and indirectly, on the criminal law. The involvement of the EU institutions in the substantive criminal laws of its Member States is of considerable legal and political significance. This book deals with the emerging EU framework for creating, harmonising and ensuring the application of EU criminal law. The book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the competence of the EU and the emerging competence of the European Commission in relation to the criminal law and assesses the implications of this for national criminal law. The second part is dominated by an analysis of the criminal law provisions of the EU in the field of cyber crime and the information society. A number of key provisions are analysed and the extent to which Mem