The Boundaries of Criminalisation : Rethinking Public Goods and Legal Interests in Domestic and Transnational Criminal Law /

This book challenges how we think about the foundations and boundaries of criminalisation by reimagining the concepts of public goods and legal interests-both nationally and transnationally. Can we identify common public goods and legal interests across borders that warrant protection through crimin...

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Other Authors: Öberg, Jacob (Editor), Ouwerkerk, Jannemieke (Editor), Voorde, Jeroen ten (Editor), Zoumpoulakis, Konstantinos (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: European Criminal Justice Series ; 3.
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Call Number: KJE7975

Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis, Jeroen ten Voorde and Jacob Öberg
  • PART 1
  • 1 Conceptualising (EU) Legal Goods: Harm, Legal Interests and Contemporary Challenges with Implications for EU Criminal Law
  • Nina Peršak
  • 2 The Concept of Legal Interest in EU Criminal Law
  • Jannemieke Ouwerkerk
  • 3 Public Goods and Harm as Justificatory Frameworks for Supranational Criminalisation
  • Jacob Öberg
  • 4 Supranational Public Goods in the Absence of a Supranational Public Good and the Insufficiency of Rechtsgüter
  • Stephen Coutts
  • 5 Redefining Norms: Exploring EU Decriminalization through the Lens of Legal Interests
  • Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis
  • 6 The Doctrine of Legal Interests and German Criminal Law
  • Martin Böse
  • 7 Constitutional Limits to Criminalisation in Portugal
  • Miguel João Costa and Susana Aires de Sousa
  • 8 Protecting Democracy through Criminal Law
  • Jeroen ten Voorde
  • PART 2
  • 9 Ecocide and Climate Change: Protecting a Global Legal Interest under International Criminal Law?
  • Helmut Satzger and Nicolai von Maltitz
  • 10 What Does Criminal Law See When It Recognises Something as Sexual? On the Legal Interests Involved in Sexual Offences
  • Linnea Wegerstad
  • 11 What's in a Name? Fair Labelling, Legal Goods, and the Criminalisation of Image-Based Sexual Abuse
  • Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter
  • 12 Drug Offences
  • Robin Hofmann
  • 13 Locating Legal Interests in the Evolving Criminal Law of Money Laundering
  • Valsamis Mitsilegas
  • 14 Legal Interests and Harms behind Hate Speech and Hate Crimes in the Context of EU Criminal Law
  • Marloes van Noorloos
  • 15 Exploring the Added Value of European Union Anti-corruption Law
  • Cecily Rose
  • Index.