This highly topical publication assesses the counterterrorism measures adopted in the USA and the Netherlands, which aim to facilitate preventive criminal investigations. It features an analysis of the legal principles that limit the scope of the methodology.

Rule of law principles for counterterrorism

Comprehensive analysis of preventive criminal investigative methods in the Netherlands and the United States

Possibilities and limits of cooperation and division of responsibilities between intelligence and law enforcement authorities

Klappentext

Rule of law principles for counterterrorism Comprehensive analysis of preventive criminal investigative methods in the Netherlands and the United States Possibilities and limits of cooperation and division of responsibilities between intelligence and law enforcement authorities

Inhalt

Introduction.- The System of Criminal Investigation in the Netherlands.- Counterterrorism Measures Affecting Criminal Investigation in the Netherlands.- The Implications of Enabling Anticipative Criminal Investigations to Confront Terrorism for the Objectives of Criminal Procedural Law: The Netherlands.- The System of Criminal Investigation in the United States.- Counterterrorism Measures Affecting Criminal Investigation in the United States.- The Implications of Enabling Preventive Criminal Investigation to Confront Terrorism for the Objectives of Criminal Procedural Law in the United States.- Regulating the Anticipative Criminal Investigation under the Rule of Law.- Conclusions.