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FOREWORD
particular against hatred and hostility. Jan Van Dijk presents comparative statistics
on victimization by common crime, homicide and organized crime/corruption
in Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Europe for the period 2006-2019.
With the exception of organized crime, whose levels remain significantly higher
in Eastern and Southern Europe than elsewhere, levels of crime have declined
and somewhat converged. Ihese data are critically analyzed and explained.
Frieder Dünkel discusses the European Prison Rules as revised in 2020 to provide
guidance to prison services on humane treatment of inmates. George P. Fletcher
offers a personal account of the criminal law related aspects of the Hungarian
regime change in 1989/90 and during the early 90s, with a special focus on the
Hungarian Constitutional Court decision abolishing the death penalty. Mordechai
Kremnitzer and Khalid Ghanayim assess a new law on homicide offenses adopted
by the Knesset in 2019. John Shattuck gives an account of human rights violations
in U.S. immigration and criminal justice practices and offers reform ideas of
the US criminal justice system to comply with due process requirements and to
eliminate racial discrimination. Tibor Tajti gives a comparative analysis of the
criminal contempt — bankruptcy proceedings nexus. Ugljesa Ugi Zveki¢ argues
that a comprehensive and effective global anti-crime governance presupposes the
development of a clear strategic approach, which recognizes the manifold linkages
among global anti-crime types and their relationship with sustainable development.
Péter Csonka kicks off the discussions on criminal procedural law and
international criminal cooperation with his views on the future of European
criminal law. Mirjan DamaSka explores the future of free proof in criminal cases.
Csaba Fenyvesi gives an interdisciplinary account of the findings, conclusions
and proposals of the research on confrontation in criminal proceedings. Artem
Galushko discusses political justice in Russia via an exploration of a series of
criminal proceedings against Ukrainian citizens after the annexation of Crimea
by the Russian Federation in 2014. Katalin Holé moves the discussion to Europe
explaining the procedural autonomy of the Member States and the principles
of equivalence and effectiveness. Zsolt Szomora in his paper on covert online
entrapment in transnational criminal cases addresses a delicate issue of evidentiary
law in the matrix of domestic law, EU law and European human rights standards.
Last, but not least in this chapter Mihaly Tóth discusses a number of issues in
relation to the use of disguised identification tools from the viewpoint of criminal
procedural guarantees.
The chapter on human rights starts with a topical writing by Alexander
Blankenagel on the inconsistency of COVID-19 measures and the related erosion
of fundamental rights and the principle of proportionality. Herbert Hanreich’s
starting point is that positive foundations of human rights fail due to the vagueness
of the concept of ‘humanity’ in such rights. Immanuel Kant’s philosophical theory
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