Towards a Rational Legislative Evaluation in Criminal Law

Part I. Fundamentals of Policy Evaluation

1. Theoretical and Procedural Aspects of the Evaluation of Public Policies
Alberto Muñoz Arenas

2. Crime Statistics in the European Union
Ana Isabel Pérez Cepeda

3. Economics as a Tool in Legislative Evaluation: Cost-Analysis, Cost-Efficacy and Cost-Benefit
Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina Gimeno

Part II. Comparative Experiences

4. Legislative Evaluation in Spain: Its Necessary Application in the Approval of Criminal Law Reforms
Samuel Rodríguez Ferrández

5. Institutional Redesign Proposals for the Preparation of Criminal Policy by the Government. The Focus on Ex Ante Evaluations
José Becerra

6. Criminal Policy Evaluation and Rationality in Legislative Procedure: The Example of Sweden
Manuel Maroto Calatayud

7. Codification and Legislative Technique in the United States of America
Marta Muñoz Morales Romero

8. Criminal Legislation in Germany
Andreas Hoyer

9. Evaluation and European Criminal Law: The Evaluation Model of the Commission
Fernando Guanarteme Sánchez Lázaro

Part III. Evaluation and Axiological Validity

10. Harm and Intellectual Property. Music Piracy as an Example of Empirical Measurement of Damage
Pablo Rando Casermeiro

11. The Proportionality Principle in a Broad Sense and Its Content of Rationality: The Principle of Subsidiarity
Ana María Prieto Pino

Part IV. Evaluation and Judicial Control

12. Constitutional Control of Criminal Law
Juan Antonio Lascuraín

13. Controlling the Constitutionality of Criminal Law Against the Onslaught of Irrationality Criminal Policy
Luis A. Vélez Rodríguez

Part V. Conclusions

14. A Necessary Triangle: The Science of Legislation, the Constitutional Control of Criminal Laws and Experimental Legislation
Adán Nieto Martín

Keywords: Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Criminology & Criminal Justice