Crime policy in Europe

Dealing with criminal policy in the Member States of the Council of Europe, this book concentrates on examples of promising practices in specific countries which could be encouraging to other countries, while being aware that the transfer of such promising practices has always to take into consideration the cultural and legal background of national systems. Moreover, the exercise needs further evaluative research.

However, the examples presented in this volume deserve attention insofar as they demonstrate that under certain circumstances crime policy may have an encouraging impact and projects can be successfully implemented with respect to criminal political law reforms.

The examples of 'good practices' in the present book are presented under the four headlines of : crime prevention (Chapters 1-3), mediation and other community sanctions (Chapters 4-10), the prison system (Chapters 11-12) and criminal procedure (Chapter 13).

Most of the authors are members of the Criminological Scientific Council of the Council of Europe (CSC). Others have been asked by the CSC to contribute to the book as they are important researchers in their countries.