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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,...

The movement "The Last Generation" stages its climate protests as civil disobedience. In politics and law, there is a search for the appropriate way to deal with these phenomena. However, most of the issues raised here are not new, but were already...

Step-by-step legalization of Cannabis is imminent in Germany. But even then, prohibition of other psychotropic substances remains as a source of infinite personal damages and societal costs. Quite in the logic of sensible administrative law...

Restorative justice (RJ) has received only limited attention in Switzerland so far. Rudimentary legal regulations and a strongly diverging regional practice stand in the way of a comprehensive realization. However, new political initiatives have...

The Austrian RJ-procedure has its legal basis in the Criminal Procedural Law as a diversionary measure. The praxis as organised exclusively nationwide by the NGO NEUSTART is marked by a wide range of modes of handling cases. They are grounded in an...

This article provides a summary of recent European developments in restorative justice processes. While in Germany victim-offender mediation is the most prominent type of restorative justice, other countries increasingly use restorative approaches...

In Germany, victim-offender mediation and other restorative measures were introduced at all stages of the criminal justice system in the early 1980s. However, – as far as statistical data are available – the number of mediation cases remained...

By order of December 16th, 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court challenged the legislature to take precautions, so that in case of scarce treatment resources in intensive care forcing medicals to make distribution decisions, nobody would be...

The existing safeguards against wrongful convictions in Germany are seen by many as ineffective. A central factor could be the unduly restricted way courts decide on applications for reopening a criminal case decided by final judgement. Therefore,...

A fierce and in part confusing dispute has erupted over the dogmatic and constitutional evaluation of Section 362 No. 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which so far seems to have no prospect of being resolved. In the meantime, the higher courts...