Searching for a Just Balance
Searching for a Just Balance

Summary/Abstract: Respecting human rights in the fight against transnational organised crime is an extremely broad and demanding topic. It is as broad as the concept of human rights and as demanding as the fight against transnational organised crime itself. In this context, human rights do not only refer to individuals who are perpetrators of transnational organised crime, but also to their human rights before, during, and after criminal proceedings. It concerns the human rights of all of us, from citizens to victims of transnational organised crime. The fundamental concept should be based on balance. Symbolically speaking, on the scales of Iustitia, we measure not only the pro et contra arguments of defence and prosecution but also the proportionality of limiting the human rights of perpetrators of transnational organised crime in order to protect the rights of others.

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