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Auteur(s): U. Sieber (ed.)
ISBN: 9789046610053
This issue is part of the fourth milestone on the way to the 20th AIDP World
Congress dedicated to ‘Criminal Justice and Corporate Business’. It contains the
reports on alternative regimes for controlling economic crime and the limits
of human rights protection for the International Colloquium for Section III on
‘Prevention, Investigation, and Sanctioning of Economic Crime’, organized by the
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg from
18 to 20 June 2018. The present issue is published simultaneously with issue 1 of
Volume 90, featuring an introduction and a selection of national reports. The
publication of the general report and the recommendations of the colloquium
will follow.
The background of the Freiburg colloquium was the evolution towards a new
architecture for economic crime control, in which criminal law is increasingly
amended and affected by alternative prevention, investigation, and sanctioning
regimes (such as administrative criminal law, civil asset forfeiture, and private
compliance regimes). The colloquium has analysed, compared, and evaluated
such alternative control regimes, focusing on their practicability and their
human rights safeguards, in view of developing recommendations for an
improved comprehensive economic crime policy. The multi-level comparative
methodological approach underlying the colloquium consisted of a comparison
of a wide range of national and international legal orders and a functional
comparison of the different criminal and alternative legal regimes within and
across these legal orders.
Over de auteur(s):
Ulrich Sieber , Professor of Criminal Law, is director at the Max Planck Institute for
Foreign and International Criminal Law. His main areas of research encompass
the changing face of complex crime, criminal law, and legal policy in today’s
global risk and information society. Major project areas include organized crime,
terrorism, economic crime, and cybercrime, as well as comparative law, security
law, European criminal law, and international criminal law.