Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice by Caeiro, Pedro; Gless, Sabine; Mitsilegas, Valsamis;

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The Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice stands apart as the most comprehensive global reference title in its field.

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The Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice stands apart as the most comprehensive global reference title in its field.

Featuring the work of over 250 scholars and practitioners from around the world, the Encyclopedia presents an accessible and uniquely far-reaching set of entries on topics associated with crime and criminal justice. Within this flagship work, the incredible breadth and depth of the field is captured by a diverse and international range of contributors.

The Encyclopedia is curated by a team of globally renowned scholars and is ambitious in its scope – comprising thematic, regional and comparative coverage. Entries give a concise summary of the accumulated knowledge on their topic, followed by a list of references to facilitate further study.

• Over 300 entries
• Entries organised alphabetically for ease of navigation
• Fully cross-referenced
• Entries written by scholars and practitioners from around the world
• World class editorial team

The Encyclopedia will be available online ahead of print, followed by a multi-volume print edition.

Table of Contents:

Contents
Abolitionism
Margaux Coquet
Abortion
Ana Cristina González Vélez and Joanna
N Erdman
Actus Reus
Johannes Keiler
Administrative Punitive Law
Lysandre Papadopoulos
Adversarial and Inquisitorial Criminal
Procedure
Michele Caianiello
Aggravating and Mitigating
Circumstances
Anabela Miranda Rodrigues
Alibi
Ricardo Nieuwkamp and Lore Mergaerts
Angola
Luzia Bebiana de Almeida Sebastião
Apartheid
Max du Plessis
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Anne Weyembergh
Art and Crime
Saskia Hufnagel
Artificial Intelligence
Eric Hilgendorf
Assisted Dying
Andrew Sanders
Asylum
Yewa S Holiday
Attempt
Leandro Dias
Australia
Clive Harfield and Simon Bronitt
Aut Dedere Aut Judicare
Miguel João Costa
Automation
Monika Simmler
Bankruptcy
Susana Aires de Sousa
Battery
Paul Bergman
Brazil
Heloisa Estellita and Mariana Tumbiolo
Tosi
Canada
Robert J Currie and Adelina Iftene
Causes of Crime
Salo de Carvalho and André
Giamberardino
Cesare Beccaria
Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata
Cesare Lombroso
Janneke de Snaijer
Chile
Carla Sepúlveda
Civil Law
Aniceto Masferrer and Mark A Sammut
Sassi
Coercion
Susan SM Edwards
Coercive Measures
Stacie St Louis
Colombia
Giuseppe M Fazari
Colonial Criminal Law
Stacey Hynd, Thaïs Gendry and Melike
Batgiray Abboud
Committal Proceedings
Tshepo Bogosiboile Mosaka and Pamela
Jane Schwikkard
Common Law
Rudi Fortson KC
Compensation/Damages
Emily Silverman
Compliance
Adán Nieto Martín
Concurrence of Offences
Antonio Cuerda Riezu
Confession
Gisli H Gudjonsson
Confiscation
Johan Boucht
Conflict of Duties
Francesco Viganò
Consent (Civil Law)
Marc Thommen
Consent (Common Law)
Dennis Baker and Xiaoxiao Wang
Control Theory (of Perpetration)
Martin Heger and Anneke Petzsche
Controlled Delivery
Frank Verbruggen
Corporate Criminal Liability
Vincenzo Militello
Council of Europe
Stefanie Schmahl
Counterfeiting Currencies
Ciro Grandi
Court of Justice of the European Union
Mattias Derlén
Crime and Criminal Law (Theories on)
Luís Greco
Crime of Aggression
Carrie McDougall
Crimes against Humanity
Leila Nadya Sadat
Crimes under International Law
Kai Ambos
Criminal Canon Law
Mark Hill KC and Norman Doe
Criminal Dangerousness
Yves Cartuyvels
Criminal Defamation
Eric P Robinson
Criminal Law and Economics
Nuno Garoupa
Criminal Liability for Political Decision-
Making
Frank Zimmermann and Ronja Zerbst
Criminal Policy
Nina Peršak
Criminal Record
Alessandro Corda
Criminalization and Decriminalization
Lindsay Farmer
Criminology
Tasniem Anwar
Crimmigration
Niovi Vavoula
Croatia
Elizabeta Ivičević Karas and Maja
Munivrana
Culpability
Jørn Jacobsen
Cybercrime
Jonathan Clough
Czech Republic
Ivo Šlosarčík and Tomáš Gřivna
Data Theft
Dominik Brodowski
Death Penalty
Luis Arroyo Zapatero
Defence Attorney
Jaime Campaner Muñoz
Defence Rights
Sabine Gless
Defences
Luís Duarte d‘Almeida
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dunia P Zongwe
Detention
Adriano Martufi
Dismissal Proceedings
Tshepo Bogosiboile Mosaka and Pamela
Jane Schwikkard
Drug Offences
Renaud Colson
Due Process and Fair Trial
Carsten Momsen and Marco Willumat
Duress
Miriam Gur-Arye
Egypt
Mohamed ‘Arafa
Electronic Evidence
Katalin Ligeti
Emergency Laws
Stefan Braum
Enemy Criminal Law (Feindstrafrecht)
Mariona Llobet
England and Wales
Jeffrey Kennedy
Entrapment
Daniel J Hill, Stephen K McLeod
and Attila Tanyi
Environmental Crime
Ying Lan and Michael Faure
EU Bodies Active in the Fight against
Crime
Fabio Giuffrida
European Arrest Warrant
Christine Janssens and Susana Fonte
European Convention on Human Rights
and European Court of Human Rights
Frank Meyer
European Criminal Law
Valsamis Mitsilegas and Pedro Caeiro
Evidence (Types of )
Alexander Heinze
Evidence and Proof
Sabine Gless
Expulsion and Deportation
Nicolette Busuttil
Extradition and Surrender
Steven Dewulf
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts
of Cambodia (ECCC)
John D Ciorciari
Extraordinary Rendition
Elspeth Guild
Fair Labelling
Gary Betts
Feminism
Aya Gruber
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Janneke de Snaijer
Financial Crime
Athanasia Dionysopoulou
Fines
Patricia Faraldo Cabana
Finland
Kimmo Nuotio
Flagrante Delicto (In)
Nicolás Rodríguez-García and Ana E
Carrillo del Teso
Forced Marriage
Aleksandra Jolkina
Forecasting Models
Debora EG Moolenaar, Frank P van
Tulder, Sunil Choenni and Mortaza S
Bargh
Forensic Science
Loene Howes
Forgery
Ana Guerreiro
France
Jocelyne Leblois-Happe
Franz von Liszt
Tarik Güng.r and Jonas Menne
Fraud
Maria Krambia-Kapardis and Andreas
Kapardis
Fulfilment of a Legal Duty, Due
Obedience and Superior Orders
Nuno Brandão
Function of the Criminal Law
António Manuel de Almeida-Costa
Gender
Patricia Faraldo-Cabana
General Principles of Criminal
Procedure
Giulio Illuminati
Genocide
Carlos Eduardo Adriano Japiassú and
Ana Lúcia Tavares Ferreira
Germany
Thomas Weigend
Globalization and Criminal Law
Leandro Mancano and Grant Barclay
Greece
Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi, Nikolaos
Chatzinikolaou and Athina Sachoulidou
Habeas Corpus
Dan Frände and Esko Yli-Hemminki
Harm Principle
Richard Allen Epstein
Hate Crimes
Phyllis B Gerstenfeld
Henri Donnedieu de Vabres
Inês Ferreira Leite
History of (Western) Criminal Law
Aniceto Masferrer
Homicide
Michael T Cahill
Hong Kong (SAR)
Amanda Whitfort
Humanitarian Law
Robert Roth
Hungary
András Csúri
Hybrid Criminal Law
Mathias Holvoet
Illegal Wildlife Trade
Janneke de Snaijer
Immunities
Paola Gaeta
Imprisonment
Maria João Antunes and Miguel João
Costa
Impunity
Leo Zaibert
Imputation
Susana Aires de Sousa
Inchoate Offences
JJ Child and Adrian Hunt
India
Nikunj Kulshreshtha
Indictment
Pamela Jane Schwikkard and Tshepo
Bogosiboile Mosaka
Indigenous Criminal Law (Africa)
Jacques Matthee
Indigenous Criminal Law (Australasia)
Asmi Wood and Faith Gordon
Industrial Espionage
Cathrine Konopatsch
International Cooperation in Time of
Emergency
Willem Geelhoed
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Paola Gaeta
International Criminal Law
Fabricio Guariglia and Matthew Cross
International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Kei Hannah Brodersen
International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (ICTR)
Mathias Holvoet
International Criminal Tribunals
(Overview)
Eugene Kontorovich
International Judicial Cooperation in
Criminal Matters (Overview)
Robert J Currie
International Military Tribunal
(Nuremberg)
Manon Céline Simon
International Military Tribunal for the
Far East (Tokyo)
Miguel Manero de Lemos and Sten
Verhoeven
International Organizations
Frank Meyer
INTERPOL and International Police
Cooperation
Giulio Calcara
Intrastate Cooperation
Maria Ludwiczak Glassey
Investigation and Inquiry
Thomas Wahl
Ireland
Ger Coffey and Shane Kilcommins
Islamic Criminal Law
Silvia Tellenbach
Israel
Shachar Eldar
Italy
Marta Minetti
Ius Puniendi
Christoph Burchard
Japan
Kodai Hashimoto
Jewish Criminal Law
Shai Wozner
Joint Criminal Enterprise
Charlotte Henry
Judges and Magistrates
Juliette Tricot
Judgment and Verdict
Maria Filatova and Aleksandr Evseev
Jurisdiction
Martin Böse
Jury System
Nancy S Marder
Kidnapping
Susan SM Edwards
Kosovo Specialist Chambers and
Specialist Prosecutor’s Office
Kei Hannah Brodersen
Law Enforcement Intelligence and
Intelligence-led Policing
Thierry Delpeuch
Law and Morals
Johan van der Walt
Legal Aid
Simon Rice
Legal Interest
Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi, Athina Sachoulidou
and Nikolaos Chatzinikolaou
Legal Judge
Masha Fedorova and Sophie Mommers
Legality (Principle of )
Juan Antonio Lascuraín Sánchez
Legality (Procedural) vs Opportunity
Katja Šugman Stubbs and Miha Hafner
Lithuania
Gintaras Švedas
Lynching
Robert W Thurston
Macao (SAR)
Miguel Manero de Lemos
Maritime Piracy
Tamsin Phillipa Paige
Mediation
Maria R Volpe
Mens Rea
Jørn Jacobsen
Mental Illness and Criminal
Responsibility
Linda Gröning
Mexico
Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira
Migrant Smuggling
Stefano Zirulia
Miscarriage of Justice and Mistrial
Angus Nurse
Misprision of Felony
Gary Lilienthal
Mistake of Fact and Mistake of Law
Christoph Burchard
Money Laundering
Foivi Mouzakiti
Mutual Legal Assistance
Martin Böse
Mutual Recognition and Mutual Trust
Valsamis Mitsilegas
Namibia
Dunia P Zongwe
Ne Bis in Idem
Joske Graat and Michiel Luchtman
Necessity
Armin Engländer
Necessity (Foundations of )
Gary Lilienthal
Neo-Colonial Criminal Law
Res Schuerch
Netherlands (The)
Jeroen ten Voorde
Neuroscience
Linda Gröning and Unn K Haukvik
New Penology
David Hayes
New Zealand
Julia Tolmie and Khylee Quince
Norway
Jørn Jacobsen
Offences of Endangerment (Actual and
Abstract Danger)
Maria Kaiafa Gbandi, Athina
Sachoulidou and Nikolaos
Chatzinikolaou
Offences against the State
Michael Head
Omission
Fabio Roberto D’Avila and Rodrigo
Moraes de Oliveira
Organized Crime
Anna Sergi
Pardon, Amnesty and Other Exemptions
from Punishment
Andrew Novak and Josepha Close
Participation, Principalship and
Complicity
Matthew Dyson and Carla Sepúlveda
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von
Feuerbach
Eric Hilgendorf
Penal Guaranteeism
Cláudia Santos
Penal Orders and Abbreviated
Proceedings
Marc Thommen
Penal Populism
John Pratt and Hun-Young Lee
People’s Republic of China
Shi Yanan
Persona Non Grata
Edward Chukwuemeke Okeke
Plea Bargaining and Guilty Plea
William Ortman
Poland
Karolina Kremens
Political Offences
Steven Dewulf
Pornography
Manuel Cancio Meliá
Portugal
Cristina Líbano Monteiro
Presumption of Innocence
Mario Caterini
Principles of EU Law and Domestic
Criminal Law
Rosaria Sicurella
Prison
João Costa
Prison in Time of Emergency
Laura Scomparin
Privatization of Criminal Justice
Francisco Schertel Mendes and Alaor
Leite
Privilege against Self-Incrimination
(Nemo Tenetur)
Anne Schneider
Probable Cause
Lorena Bachmaier Winter
Procedural Rights in Time of Emergency
Belinda Bennett and Ian Freckelton
Profiling
Amy Burrell, Chelsea Slater and Kari
Davies
Property Offences
Frank Peter Schuster
Proportionality (Principle of )
Emmanouil Billis and Nandor Knust
Prosecution and Prosecutors
Juliette Tricot
Prostitution
Teresa Pizarro Beleza and Helena
Pereira de Melo
Psychiatric Internment
Maria João Antunes
Punishment (Theories on)
Antje du Bois-Pedain
Recidivism
Jocelyne Leblois-Happe
Recognition of Foreign Sentences
Stefanie Bock
Regional Judicial Cooperation in
Criminal Matters: Mainland China,
Hong Kong and Macao
Miguel Manero de Lemos and Simon NM
Young
Regional Judicial Cooperation in
Criminal Matters: the Nordic Arrest
Warrant
Karri Tolttila
Rehabilitation
Adán Nieto Martín
Restorative Justice
Salo de Carvalho and André
Giamberardino
Restrictive Measures
Willem Geelhoed, Viktor Szép
and Ramses A Wessel
Romania
Johanna Rinceanu
Rule of Law
Michał Peno
Russia
Gennady Esakov
Sanctions (Types of Criminal)
Francesco Mazzacuva
Secrecy in Criminal Proceedings
Greg Martin
Security Measures and Preventive
Measures
Jessie Blackbourn
Self-defence
Hector Garcia de la Torre
Sentencing
Nicola Padfield
Sexual Offences
Stuart P Green
Singapore
Kumaralingam Amirthalingam
Slavery
Nicole Siller
Slovenia
Miha Hafner and Katja Šugman Stubbs
Socialist Criminal Law (Historic)
Andrea Kluknavská
South Africa
Gerhard Kemp
Spain
Ramon Ragués
Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
Valerie Oosterveld
Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East
Timor
Pedro Caeiro and Inês Freixo
Special Status Offences (Delicta Propria)
Mario Alberto Villar
Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)
Olga Kavran
Statute of Limitations
Vittorio Manes
Suspect and Defendant
Giulia Lasagni
Sweden
Maria Bergström
Taiwan
Kai-Ping Su
Temporal Application of the Criminal
Law
Annika Suominen and Dan Frände
Terrorism and Financing of Terrorism
Clive Walker and Mariona Llobet
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Warren Brookbanks
Tort and Crime
Matthew Dyson and Marta Pantaleón
Díaz
Torture and Other Forms of Ill-
Treatment
Marta Pinto da Cruz
Trafficking in Human Beings
Alexis A Aronowitz
Transitional Justice
Agustina Becerra Vazquez
Transnational Criminal Law
Neil Boister
Trials
Caleb Wheeler
Türkiye
Feridun Yenisey
Undercover Investigation
Clive Harfield and Simon Bronitt
United Nations and International
Criminal Justice
Miguel Manero de Lemos
USA
Stephen C Thaman
Victim and Victimology
Jean Pierre Matus
War Crimes
Raphaël Jakob
Whistleblowing
Carsten Momsen and Paula Benedict
White-Collar Crime
Petter Gottschalk
Witness
María Ángeles Pérez Marín
Witness Protection
José Mouraz Lopes
Young Offenders
Frank Neubacher