CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIME POLICY BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND EFFECTIVE CRIME CONTROL

The ESC Conferences are definitively Europe no. 1 meeting point for eminent lecturers, researches and other professionals from the field of criminology. The 2009 organizing institutions agreed on devoting the utmost attention the dilemma of exploring the effectiveness of crime policy and protection of human rights. The crime policy has been facing today a major problem: whether or not a balance could be found between the standards of human rights protection in this area and the ever stronger demand for greater effectiveness which – as far as we know – could be achieved only at the expense of the previous.