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Calls for a stronger alignment of survey data on public attitudes and criminal sentencing are currently debated in both public and academic fora. At times, this is framed as “democratizing criminal law”. While its potential to gain traction in...

From crime prevention and repression to restoring the relationship of trust between the police and the public - the expectations of police use of bodycams are diverse and vary greatly depending on the country. In the USA, for example, bodycams were...

Because of an increase of crimes reported in the German police crime statistics (PCS) questions of internal security and the increase of crimes from foreigners are discussed. For an appropriate evaluation of the security situation attention should...

No area of criminal law is currently more dynamic than sexual criminal law. The latest debate has been triggered by arguments which, with reference to observations on sentencing practice, have called for harsher punishment in the area of serious...

Digitalization offers numerous opportunities for easier access to justice, but it can also pose new challenges. This applies to both government and non-government victim support services in Germany. Some initial digital solutions for internal...

From spring 2020, the global measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic led to considerable restrictions that affected all areas of life, including, of course, prostitution. In Germany, for example, prostitution businesses were temporarily closed and...

This article introduces the special issue of NK on research into prostitution and human trafficking. It presents a current, large-scale study evaluating the Prostitute Protection Act, which came into effect in 2017. The study's design, subjects of...

In Germany, almost 11 million tons of food are thrown away every year. Dumpster diving discarded food is morally understandable, but involves criminal risks, particularly in the area of property offences. Politicians have been working on reform...

Substantial social crises, such as the climate or corona crisis, have led to the evidence-based design of political decision-making processes moving back onto the interdisciplinary agenda of politics, science and law. The European Commission is also...

Prostitution regulation in Europe is heterogeneous: In Belgium, for example, prostitution is treated the same as other economic sectors (so called model of decriminalization). In Germany, it is legal if special rules are observed (model of...

In 2020 and 2021, the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN) conducted a study funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) to evaluate the criminal law provisions to combat human trafficking (Sections...

Corruption offenses regularly affect the fundamental and human rights of others. In most cases, the preferential treatment of individuals leads to discrimination of third parties. Therefore, it violates the principle of equality. However, also basic...

Ecocentrism is a perspective that views nature as having value in and of itself and for its own sake. This translates into specific kinds of legal approach and decision-making. This article explores how broad ecocentric principles are put into...

While the criminological examination of climate change-related phenomena has hardly received attention in German-language Criminology, an independent branch of research has emerged in the Anglophone world in the course of the last decade. The aim of...

In October 2023, the Federal Ministry of the Interior presented a draft bill for a “Repatriation Improvement Act”, which was supplemented in November 2023 by a drafting aid provided to the members of the governing coalition in the German...

In German criminal proceedings, it is possible to impose a written sentence without a main hearing. If defendants appeal against this, there is a main hearing after all. However, various principles of criminal procedure law only apply to a limited...

In many cases, trade is prohibited (e.g. human trafficking, trade in psychotropic substances) or strictly regulated by criminal or environmental laws (arms trade, trade in flora and fauna). Scientific studies can draw on the unlawfulness or on the...

In a legal system committed to sustainability, there is a need for a concept of environmental criminal law that aims to limit environmental pollution or endangerment through criminal sanctions in national, European, or global market regulations. The...

It is little known that the instrument of direct marketing via vending machines is the target of criminal acts. It is known, however, that farmers use direct marketing vending machines to offer their goods to the customer. The aim of this article is...

Farms in England and Wales continue to have low levels of crime prevention measures in use despite the increasing threat, and what is used is often ineffective. Farm crime in England and Wales is becoming increasingly organised in its nature, as...

The article discusses how colonial injustices can be remedied with the help of Theodor W. Adorno and criminological theory. Adorno claims that the past will only have been worked through “when the causes of what happened then have been...

This article reports first findings of the Farm Crime Survey of the Criminal Law and Criminology Lab at the Freie Universität Berlin. The study concerns a topic that has not yet been researched in criminology in Germany, namely crimes against...