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11 Eur. J. on Crim. Pol'y & Rsch. v (2005)

handle is hein.journals/eurjcpr11 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL At a time when the European Constitution has been rejected, with con- sequent increasing difficulties in making effective decisions about a har- monised European Criminal Justice System, this thematic issue touches the sensitive nerve of the import and export of criminal justice policies across the Atlantic. The Journal is grateful to Rosemary Barberet, who has both an American and a European taste, for organising the articles around this topic. The contributions touch such traditional areas as juvenile justice, cor- ruption, policing and crime prevention, court management, victims' rights and restorative justice. The reader of this issue may finally conclude that there are no single models of criminal justice that could be transferred or imported. Whether the process has started with the American influence or with the European one, the current situation in the new European countries is mainly a blend of both. More than a competition between the two mod- els, over the past years there has been an inefficient system of international co-operation in the area of criminal justice. Initially, the US State Depart- ment and the European Commission, with their branches USA-AID and Europe-AID, silently tried to influence legislation and the criminal justice systems of many countries outside the borders of the 15 original Member States. Many times, Americans and Europeans financed initiatives in the same area without any co-ordination between them. The beneficiary coun- tries have enjoyed the resources allocated, but the results have been poor in terms of real reforms. Things are changing today, though. Wider borders include more different criminal justice systems than before. The blend of American and European policies is on its way to becoming a European label, now the Eastern European countries have entered the larger Europe. This process has been facilitated by the increasing need to find an answer to the urgent need to find reliable policies to combat transnational organised crime and economic/financial crime. There is now one major question that remains open: will Europe in turn be capable of transferring to the United States the European taste in civil liberties in the area of combating terrorism? Or, rather, will we import from the US the tough anti-terrorism laws that have produced consistent damage in the area of criminal justice? I wish that a future thematic issue of this Journal may be produced, using the same paradigm of this one, but applied to anti-terrorism policies. Ernesto U. Savona Editor-in-Chief European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (2005) 11: v DOI: 10.1007/s10610-005-1338-x © Springer 2005

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