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This chapter offers short expert views on different aspects of police and judicial cooperation, including De Vries’ contribution on cooperation regarding counterterrorism and the fight against organised crime; Bossong and Rieger’s exploration of future data sharing options for police cooperation; Trauner’s piece on the negotiations regarding the UK’s future participation in Europol; Wilson and Carr’s discussion of future cooperation in Forensic Science; and MacKenzie’s considerations on the UK’s role in EU counter-terrorism policy. This chapter also encompasses a number of expert views that focus specifically on security threats, including Sergi’s analysis of Brexit creating opportunities for transnational criminal networks; Farrand’s exploration of Brexit’s impact on combatting counterfeiting; and Porcedda’s and Lavorgna’s pieces on the consequences of Brexit for the UK and the EU in the area of cybersecurity.
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Notes
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This contribution was originally published in the LSE Brexit Blog on the 12th of March 2018. For the original, please visit: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/03/12/a-hard-brexit-will-see-criminals-taking-back-control/.
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The DRD was invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in 2014.
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Ian Duncan Smith, for example, warned that remaining in the EU would expose the UK to the possibility of Paris-style attacks (those from 13 November 2015) (BBC 2016).
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This text was originally published in the BSC Blog on the 1st of March 2018. For the original text, please see https://thebscblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/not-in-my-backyard-brexit-and-the-myths-of-transnational-organised-crime/.
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All views expressed in this piece remain mine and do not reflect in any way the views of the EPSRC. I wish to express my gratitude to Helena Farrand-Carrapico and Martyn Egan for the insightful comments that helped improving this text.
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The 1990 Computer Misuse Act was passed long before the Budapest Convention. For a comparative legal historical perspective on cybercrime, see https://www.coe.int/sv/web/octopus/countries (accessed 22 June 2018).
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Wall (2016) also adds issues of common research under EU funding.
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In the UK, for instance, the definition of ‘computer misuse’ does not include the notion of data.
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For documents concerning Galileo, see http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/documents_en.
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Carrapico, H., Niehuss, A., Berthélémy, C. (2019). Sectoral Views on Police and Judicial Cooperation. In: Brexit and Internal Security. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04194-6_7
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