Jurisdiktionskonflikte bei grenzüberschreitender Kriminalität. Conflicts of jurisdiction in cross-border crime situations

Conflicts of jurisdiction arise when several states, in accordance with their respective national criminal laws, claim jurisdictional power for themselves to try a suspect for one and the same crime. The cumulation of national jurisdictional powers puts a suspect at the risk of prosecution by several states or even multiple penalisation for the same offense. Parallel prosecution in several states ...