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This article addresses the dilemma faced by undocumented migrants without prior contact with authorities when reporting a crime. For these individuals, filing a criminal complaint entails a dual risk: the principle of mandatory prosecution...

The article examines the rhetorical, conceptual, and methodological prerequisites for an appropriate interpretation of police crime statistics in the context of the debate on migration and crime. It focuses on the question of which conclusions may...

The deprivation of nationality as a response to criminal conduct has become increasingly widespread across Europe in recent years. Initially driven by counterterrorism policies, current debates increasingly consider the withdrawal of citizenship as...

Houses of Juvenile Justice bring together youth welfare services, the police and juvenile prosecutors in a single building in order to optimize responses to crimes committed by adolescents. In the cooperation agreements of some Houses, the positive...

Foreign nationals are markedly overrepresented in pre-trial detention—a pattern that can be observed not only in Germany but across many European jurisdictions. A seemingly intuitive explanation lies in the ground of detention based on the risk of...

Organized crime has long been one of the evergreens of criminal policy in Germany. According to the annual National Situation Report on Organized Crime, organized crime groups not only cause damage in the billions, but also regularly exert influence...

Citizenship is of relatively minor relevance in German substantive criminal law. There is, however, a field of criminal law – migration criminal law – that includes a great number of offences that can only be committed by foreign citizens,...

The article questions common interpretations of ‘clan crime’, which describe ethnic groups from the Mardin region as homogeneous, collectively criminal clans with a fixed patriarchal order and loyalty secured by endogamy. Based on a long-term...

The health risks posed by so-called knockout drops, which are secretly added to the drinks of victims, have been highlighted for years. Criminal courts also repeatedly deal with such cases, particularly in the context of robbery and sexual offences....

The number of people who are in favour of legalising cannabis has increased in Germany since the 1980s.To what extent this is the case depends on the specifications of legalisation. In contrast to the USA the number of people who in favour of a...

Criminal law, as practiced to deliberately inflict harm in order to protect legal interests, would initially seem largely incompatible with the principles of Nonviolent Communication („NVC“) as developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg. NVC rejects...

This article examines the conditions that give rise to and perpetuate delinquent behavior among members of Arabic-speaking extended families from a biographical perspective. One focus is on the question of which social problems, biographical...

The author presents a reform proposal concerning the prerequisites and legal consequences of murder in the first degree that was issued by the German Lawyers Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein) in 2024. According to the proposal, the assumption of...

After a brief introduction to the cross-state evaluation approach for the juvenile prison system, which was called for by the Federal Court for Constitution in 2006, the evaluation concept and interim results will be presented in order to derive...

This article examines the criminal prosecution of darknet-related offenses, drawing on recent high-profile takedowns of marketplaces such as "Hydra Market", "Monopoly Market", and "Deutschland im Deep Web". It focuses on investigative strategies...

Murder is a form of homicide that negates not only the victim's right to life but also his or her dignity. Greco develops this approach in discussion with recent reform proposals, particularly from defense attorneys.

Predictive policing techniques as data-based analyses for the purpose of predicting and preventing criminal offences by the police are increasingly the subject of crime policy discussions. The debates often focus on person-related procedures to...

This article deals with recent attempts to reform homicide laws in the form of the DAV paper from March 2024 and the considerations of Luís Greco. It begins with an overview of the status and problems of the reform discussion on Sections 211-213 of...