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Does criminological research provide connectable scientific (criminological) evidence for daily prison practice? Forensic criminology as a "key science" enables the "key persons" in the prison system to solve practical problems.

On June 16, 2021, the German Bundestag raised the minimum penalties in § 184b (1) sentence 1, (3) of the German Criminal Code (distribution, acquisition, production and possession of child pornography content) to imprisonment of no less than one...

The discussion about the imprisonment for fine-default (§ 43 Criminal Code) has been going on for some time, only recently intensified by the government bill for the revision of the law of criminal sanctions, proposing, among other things, the...

In pluralistic democratic societies, we experience and observe a variety of different life contexts. In this century, digitalisation and digitality are expanding our horizons. Virtual communication creates opportunities on the one hand for...

The paper deals with the use of artificial intelligence against a public law background and warns against the uncontrolled use of it by private parties. It discusses opportunities of AI as a fast, accurate and flexible way to solve problems, but...

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...

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,...