It is this diversity in our criminal policies which we have to address and legislating properly means looking for genuine legal convergence criteria and facing up to the reality of prisons in Europe, which are often overcrowded places outside the law which are a disgrace to the conception we have of ourselves.
Det er denne mangfoldighed af politiske strafferetsformer, det er nødvendigt at se i øjnene og lovgive grundigt om. Det drejer sig om at forsøge at udvikle reelle kriterier for juridisk konvergens, men også om en mulighed for at se på virkeligheden i EU's fængsler, der ofte er overbefolkede.