A transfer of criminal proceedings may take place between a judicial authority from one Member State and a judicial authority in another Member State when it is in the interest of a proper administration of justice that a criminal offence is further investigated and prosecuted in the second Member State. There was a general feeling among experts on judicial cooperation in the Member States that the current practice of transferring criminal proceedings could and should be improved. Researchers from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, together with the Amsterdam Public Prosecution Office, Bielefeld University and the Belgian Federal Prosecution Office took the initiative to start a a research project on the Transfer of criminal proceedings in the EU (TROP). The project was funded by the European Commission. This report contains the conclusions of the TROP research project. It outlines the current practice of transferring criminal proceedings in the EU, it identifies the main challenges experienced by practitioners and describes possible solutions to those challenges. These solutions were tested in multiple discussions between practitioners, academics and policy makers. During the TROP research project, it became clear that the European Commission would propose a new legislative instrument on the transfer of criminal proceedings in the near future. In the report, we tried to anticipate the content of such a proposal and the discussion in the Council and in the European Parliament. To this end, we have formulated our proposals for improving the transfer of proceedings as building blocks for a possible EU-legal instrument.

["The Sanctioning of Insubordinate Patient Behaviour. Disciplinary Aspects of the Execution of Psychiatric Disciplinary Actions"] How should a psychiatric hospital react to rule infringements by its residents, and specifically to any infringements of standards, which restrict the orderly procedures of the hospital and make the communal living of the patients more difficult? The legislators from the different Federal State Legislatures have decided not to plan for an explicit disciplinary law concerning the execution of prison rules for improvement and security. This work examines the question of whether a codified disciplinary law is preferable. It seeks an answer to this question, not only through a legally dogmatic examination of the subject but also through sociological analyses, its own empirical investigations and through legally comparable considerations of the execution of the regulations in the Netherlands. This creates a multi-layered picture of the problem of the legal control of society under the conditions of state imprisonment.