Die staatliche Garantie für die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung

The state's responsibility for security, law and order is facing new challenges, for example international organized crime. In this work, Markus Möstl examines the scope of the state's constitutional duty to guarantee security and analyzes the current changes in policing methods. He demonstrates that in the process of European integration and in view of the necessity of establishing a European 'area of freedom, security and justice', the traditional responsibility of the nation state is being complemented by elements of supranational maintenance of internal security.