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Although the use of the internet for educational purposes is possible in almost every German prison and video-calls have been an integral part of communication with the outside world since the Covid-19 pandemic, a prisoners claim to these services...

On October 1, 2023, as part of a comprehensive revision of the law on sanctions, the new regulations on placement in a detention facility in accordance with § 64 StGB came into force (BGBl. I 2023, 203). This article aims to report on initial...

The debate on the criminalization of abortion has recently intensified in Germany due to political efforts to reform the existing legal framework. The prevailing concept regarding §§ 218 ff. of the German Criminal Code (StGB) is based on the...

On the occasion of the FDP parliamentary group's draft law on the modernization of criminal law, this article deals with the basic problems of decriminalization. To this end, it clarifies the concept and types of decriminalization, discusses the...

The paper describes the relationship between criminological findings and criminal policy orientations. It explains to what extent the ideal of a criminologically based criminal policy can actually exist and which criminal policy orientations can be...