Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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 criminal law, or are they shaped by diverse national values and principles? To answer this, the book examines how these concepts justify, explain, and constrain the criminalisation of conduct across different legal systems. It blends rigorous academic analysis with practical recommendations to help further shape our ideas on criminalisation and the future of criminal law, making it a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and anyone invested in the future of criminal justice across Europe and beyond.

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