Liz Campbell, ORGANISED CRIME AND THE LAW. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2013. xli+273 pp. ISBN 9781849461221. £36.99.
| Published date | 01 September 2015 |
| Date | 01 September 2015 |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2015.0312 |
| Pages | 435-438 |
A new monograph bearing this title instantly joins a real pile of other similar and contrastable releases (e.g. J Albanese,
Which jurisdictions are then being discussed? This choice is most crucial since it sets the entire course of the following comparison. Campbell decided to contrast UK law with Irish law. At first sight, this is a fairly surprising selection, because both legal systems are similar in many ways, both belonging to the Common Law family and running an adversarial method of criminal justice, to mention the most important commonalities. From this point of view, the inclusion of other reference jurisdictions outside of the Common Law realm should have appeared inescapable. Campbell is quite aware of that (3, 5–7) but defends her choice in her introduction (ch 1). On closer inspection, this range of comparator jurisdictions is justified by all the valuable insights this decision breeds. Being a comparative analysis, this volume follows a successive approach in methodical terms, dealing with each chosen legal issue for both jurisdictions one after the other. Fortunately, Campbell also occasionally alludes to the international scope of her topic (7).
In outline (10–11), the book spans nine nominal chapters: the introduction (ch 1) is followed by two underlying parts which provide empirical details, methodical conditions and preliminaries of criminal justice policy on organised crime (ch 2 and 3). After that, Campbell concentrates on investigations in the pre-trial...
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