This paper asks what Capital Markets Union (CMU) means for the future of financial market regulation in the European Union and suggests an answer: the merging of public and private regulation. In the pre-crisis period, public regulation and private regulation of financial markets were separate...

The financial crisis has spread from private to public, from financial markets (2007-9) to sovereign states (2010 onwards). Concerns over ‘connectedness' – between banks, between banks and states, and hence between states – lies at the heart of the Eurozone debt crisis, just as it...

Researching and analysing the responses of the criminal-justice systems to drug offenders throughout Europe is one of the EMCDDA's priorities. This study is the result of a decision taken by the EMCDDA's Management Board in 1999 to set up a legal information system on drugs. This study, focusing...

This response to a Communication of the European Commission on ‘reinforcing sanctioning regimes in financial services' supports the emphasis placed on more intensive investigation and detection. Sanctions remain hypothetical in the absence of detection, which is unlikely without serious...

Syncrisis - a term from Socrates we take up from the authors of the first paper in this special issue of CLSC - means bringing together ideas and practices that are different and possibly incomparable. Socrates saw this as a method of social inquiry: the reactions or resonances created by the...

So much has been written - and vigorously contested - about 'organized crime' (OC) that the impending fall of this familiar icon may come as a shock, both to its detractors and to those who take it for granted. Yet that moment may be upon us, for reasons that this paper will explore, as the...

The relationship between the private security industry and public institutions and agencies is complex and by no means one-way. The industry assists and acts as a substitute for the public sphere, is governed by it, albeit in a partial and uneven manner, whilst restructuring the public sphere in...

Dorn's chapter addresses three, inter-related public goods: systemic stability of financial markets, diversity in regulatory regimes, and democratic steering. Politicisation and democratic control of financial market policies and regulation – introducing a greater diversity of objectives and...