Neue Kriminalpolitik brings together all disciplines in criminal law – it is the forum for criminal science, law and practice. The journal sees its priority in setting new standards and in providing a forum for interdisciplinary discussions which, including the knowledge from different countries, pursue the following targets: rational approach towards crime, the protection of the fundamental rights, the priority of social self-regulation and conflict solving while reducing state involvement. The journal addresses criminologists, sociologists, lawyers, teachers, forensic psychiatrists and psychologists working in various kinds of fields such as politics and science. Website: www.nk.nomos.de
This article provides a summary of recent European developments in restorative justice processes. While in Germany victim-offender mediation is the most prominent type of restorative justice, other countries increasingly use restorative approaches...
In Germany, victim-offender mediation and other restorative measures were introduced at all stages of the criminal justice system in the early 1980s. However, – as far as statistical data are available – the number of mediation cases remained...
The Austrian RJ-procedure has its legal basis in the Criminal Procedural Law as a diversionary measure. The praxis as organised exclusively nationwide by the NGO NEUSTART is marked by a wide range of modes of handling cases. They are grounded in an...
Restorative justice (RJ) has received only limited attention in Switzerland so far. Rudimentary legal regulations and a strongly diverging regional practice stand in the way of a comprehensive realization. However, new political initiatives have...
This paper describes evaluative findings of the implementation and embedding of a practice approach in a youth justice residence in Aotearoa New Zealand. It highlights the process of developing a respectful relational culture within the residence,...
In view of the 50th anniversary of its publication, the article reports on the alternative draft of a prison law that was presented in 1973 by criminal law teachers from Germany and Switzerland. The draft law was never implemented, but contains many...
The movement "The Last Generation" stages its climate protests as civil disobedience. In politics and law, there is a search for the appropriate way to deal with these phenomena. However, most of the issues raised here are not new, but were already...
Step-by-step legalization of Cannabis is imminent in Germany. But even then, prohibition of other psychotropic substances remains as a source of infinite personal damages and societal costs. Quite in the logic of sensible administrative law...