NK Neue Kriminalpolitik

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,...

Recently, criminal law scholars have demanded an increase of punishment for grave sexual offences. The assumption that current sentences are too low for such offences is (inter alia) based on the results of public surveys concerning sentencing...