Counter organized crime policy

Francesca Longo

Chapter 23 in Handbook of European Union Governance, 2025, pp 330-341 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Since the mid-1970s, the European Union (EU) has developed several actions simplifying effective cooperation and coordination among its member states to combat organized crime in its transnational and cross-border dimensions. This chapter analyses these activities and concludes that the EU has created a governance system enabling member states to tackle jointly the challenge of organized and cross-border crime. This governance system has two main features. First, it is multi-sectorial, with a primary emphasis on the harmonization of criminal legislation, police cooperation, and judicial cooperation. Second, it has a vertical multilevel configuration grounded in collaboration among entities across European, national, and local levels of government. This configuration relieves the tension between the opposing challenges of preserving legal diversity among member states and strengthening cooperation in the area of criminal law. This governance system strikes a sustainable balance between cross-border cooperation and the preservation of differences in member-state legal systems.

Keywords: EU; Organized crime; Multilevel governance; Police cooperation; Judicial cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925172
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