Research report 2018 - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
The architecture of security law in the global risk society
Authors
Sieber, Ulrich
Departments
Strafrechtliche Abteilung (Ulrich Sieber)
Summary
Terrorism, cybercrime, and other complex crimes are leading to a paradigm shift in crime control on a global scale: A new architecture of security law is emerging, one in which criminal law is coalescing with other preventive legal regimes. These changes can enable a more effective control of crime. However, they often jeopardize the traditional rule-of-law safeguards of criminal law, unless a new architecture of civil rights and liberties is developed simultaneously.