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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...

The article reports on a survey of seven social work bachelor degree courses about punitive attitudes among students and presents the results of a follow-up survey compared to the initial survey at the beginning of the course. The surveys were...

This article examines the extent to which the structural situation of rural areas opens up opportunities for right-wing extremist actors. It shows that rural areas that are less socio-economically well-off are particularly attractive for right-wing...

It was not only the labelling of the climate change activists “Last Generation” (LG) as a criminal organisation that laid bare that criminal justice authorities have started to accept their role as participants in a fight for labels and...

Professionalism, binding procedures and the compliance with legal requirements are intended to ensure equal treatment for all, especially in court. However, it is easily overlooked that these institutionalized procedures can structurally...

This article examines the question of whether the management of a correctional facility has the authority to separate a postpartum woman from her newborn child immediately after birth if she is incarcerated. In practice, there have been cases where...

The rapid advancement of AI technologies poses a potential threat to the autonomous existence of humanity, insofar as self-learning AI systems (all-purpose AI) could be far superior to human capabilities in the near future and develop a destructive...

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,...