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Christopher Harding, Joanna Beata Banach-Gutierrez
This article analyses the European Commission's Communication of September 2011, "Towards an EU Criminal Policy", in an attempt to identify more precisely the nature and role of what is now commonly referred to as "EU criminal law" and to extrapolate some theoretical foundation for the deployment of criminal law at the European level. The analysis is framed around three major tensions in contemporary criminal law development�criminalisation versus soft compliance, security versus justice and rights protection, and globalisation versus local diversity�leading in turn to three main questions: why use criminal law, with what risks, and why at EU level?
