NK Neue Kriminalpolitik

The coalition agreement of 5 May 2025 for the 21st legislative period promises numerous tougher penalties and even a new element of murder, but unlike its predecessors, it no longer contains a commitment to evidence-based criminal policy. The...

Global organized (financial) crime is one of the most present and macroeconomically damaging criminal phenomena in the economic global community. In recent times, alongside core criminal law and regulatory measures to combat money laundering, asset...

Using the example of the Spanish lagoon Mar Menor, which was granted legal personality and subjective rights by Ley 19/2022, this essay examines the criminal law implications of rights of nature (RoN). The article mainly attributes the fact that the...

The coalition agreement of the newly elected government, formed by the CDU, CSU, and SPD, places criminal law in the context of what has been described – primarily in terms of foreign policy – as a „Zeitenwende“ (historic turning point)....

In this article we present the results of a criminological policy survey among students, which has been conducted annually at the University of Tübingen between 2007 and 2024. The study examines how respondents would punish eleven briefly described...

The German penal system is governed by the principle of strict separation of the sexes. However, the growing public awareness of the lived realities of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals—driven by scientific research, international...

The placement of offenders under Section 64 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) in a closed facility for alcohol and drug addicts was the subject of the reform of the law on sanctions with the Act of 1 October, 2023. In view of the significant...