EU criminal law as an emergent regime : editorial introduction / Joanna Beata Banach-Gutierrez and Christopher Harding -- Supranational integration in criminal matters within the European Union : what could the future bring? / Joanna Beata Banach-Gutierrez -- The effects of the civilizing process on penal developments in the European Union / Jaroslaw Utrat-Milecki -- EU criminal law : national boundaries and the European penal rainbow / Joanna Banach-Gutierrez and Christopher Harding -- Towards a principled European criminal policy : some lessons from the Nordic countries / Raimo Lahti -- The marginalization of European criminal law : proportionality, subsidiarity, and principled public policy priorities in protecting human life and rights / Hendrik Kaptein -- EU criminal law and effet utile : a critical examination of the Union's use of criminal law to achieve effective enforcement / Vanessa Franssen -- Tasks for criminology in the field of EU criminal law and crime policy / Christopher Harding -- Reflections on the prospects for regional criminal courts : Europe and Africa compared / Harmen van der Wilt -- The practice of plea bargaining in the Nordic context / Patrick Gunsberg -- The EU criminal intelligence model : problems and issues / Artur Gruszczak -- Victims as individuals with rights in the European Union : their protection and their legal standing / Begona Vidal Fernandez -- Exploring the impact of legal culture in shaping the role of the European public prosecutor : the prospects for penal moderation / Constantina Sampani -- Exploring the case for criminalisation of business cartels in Europe / Patrick Gunsberg -- The EU legislation on protection of financial markets against market manipulation and its implementation in Polish law / Anna Blachnio-Parzych -- Transposing EU framework decisions into the United Kingdom's criminal law : the trials and tribulations of a researcher / Jennifer Edwards.