By Dr. Liz Campbell
5:00 p.m., Thursday,
March 7th, 2013
Criminal Courts of
Justice, Parkgate Street,
Dublin 8, Ireland
Those wanting to attend should contact joanne.davidson@fulbright.ie
/ 01.660.7670 by February 28th,
2013 . Please indicate if you
will join us for the tour at 5:00 or just the reception at 6:00.
Organised Crime and the
Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford,
2013)
Organised Crime and the
Law presents
an overview of the laws and policies adopted to address the phenomenon of
organised crime in the United Kingdom
and Ireland.
It assesses the degree to which these justice systems have been recalibrated in
preventing, investigating, prosecuting, and punishing organised criminality.
While the notion of organised crime is a contested one, States’ legal responses
treat it and its constituent offences as unproblematic in a definitional sense.
This book advances a systematic doctrinal critique of those domestic criminal
laws, the laws of evidence, and sentencing practices.
Organised Crime and the
Law constructs
a theoretical framework on which an appraisal of these legal measures may be
based, focusing in particular on the tension between due process and crime
control, the demands of public protection and risk aversion, and other
adaptations. In particular, it identifies parallels and points of divergence
between the different jurisdictions in the UK
and Ireland,
bearing in mind the shared history of subversive threats and anti-terrorist
policies. It further examines the extent to which policy transfer is evident in
the UK and Ireland in terms of emulating the United States
in reacting to organised crime.
Dr. Liz Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in
Criminal Law and Evidence at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, having
being based at the University
of Aberdeen previously
(2007-2012). Liz carried out her doctoral study at University College Cork as a
Government of Ireland scholar (2004-2007) and received her BCL and LLM degrees
from UCC also.
Liz's principal
areas of research are criminal law/justice, with a particular interest in
the legal responses to organised crime, DNA databases, and the presumption of
innocence. She publishes widely in leading academic journals and
co-authored a textbook on Irish criminal law. Liz is a regular participant at
national and international conferences, frequently provides expert commentary
to the media, and was a key participant in an RTÉ documentary on organised
crime.
In
2011 Liz was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to support her research on
counter-organised crime measures in the UK
and Ireland and spent
2011-2012 at the University
of Maryland, writing
Organised Crime and the Law.
