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The present article provides a comprehensive overview of different scientific and practical perspectives on the phenomenon of false reports in the context of sexual offenses. The aim is to provide a basis for discussion to rationalize the sometimes...

To ensure that access to justice does not remain an empty promise, a multidimensional understanding is required that places prisoners and their human rights at the centre. In this article, four dimensions are proposed that can serve as orientation...

The article shows shortcomings in the implementation of prisoners’ rights in Germany. Some of them are already laid out by the procedural law as regulated in the Federal Prison Act. When focusing on the law in action instead of simply the law in...

The article discusses the specific nature of criminal defense in the execution of therapeutic measures, namely Art. 59 of the Swiss Criminal Code (SCC). It argues, that there has been a general shift in criminal defense towards risk management,...