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Towards a Rational Legislative Evaluation in Criminal Law

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  • © 2016

Overview

  • Offers a holistic approach on key evaluation issues
  • Includes theoretical-practical analysis on how evaluation should be done
  • Focuses on studies of a procedural or formal type in relation to the adoption of criminal laws at national and European level
  • Deals with questions of legislative technique and with adjustment of criminal laws to the basic principles of the discipline
  • Analyses constitutional control over criminal laws
  • Pays attention to statistics in carrying out quality evaluations
  • Includes special chapters on new topics as the use of costs, cost-effectiveness and cost benefit in the evaluation of criminal policies and the contribution of economic studies in the configuration of criminal principles

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Fundamentals of Policy Evaluation

  2. Evaluation and Judicial Control

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About this book

This book launches a debate on the need to evaluate criminal policies and, what is more complex and ambitious, to develop an evaluation method. The contributions address topics such as the general methodology for evaluating public policy, preparing criminal statistics, and analyzing costs, cost-effectiveness and cost benefits. Additionally, the work explores the state of affairs in various countries including Spain, Sweden, USA, Germany and in the EU. It also examines issues such as the relationship between legislative evaluation and criminal principles and the constitutional courts’ control over criminal acts.



Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Adán Nieto Martín

  • School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Castillo-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero

About the editors

Adán Nieto Martín and Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero are Professors at the Institute of European and International Criminal Law at University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.


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