englischDoes a couple detained at the same time have a right to a communal detention room? According to current law, this depends in particular on whether the couple is homosexual or heterosexual and in which federal state the couple is imprisoned. The central research question of this thesis is [...]

englischThe study answers the question of whether an end to German cannabis prohibition can be achieved on the basis of practical experience. For this purpose, the study evaluates the concrete effects of legalisation in the US states of Colorado and California as well as in Canada and examines which [...]

englischAttacks on rescue workers often generate a great deal of media coverage. The reporting is often limited to the description of individual, particularly incisive attacks on those who actually want to provide help. The public outrage is palpable and the reporting also leads to a sensitization [...]

englischThe study uncovers special features in teaching that result from criminology itself as well as from its embedding in the law degree programme. The challenges are reflected from the perspective of university didactics. The focus is on the criteria of relevance (overall view of need, [...]

englischAccess to telephone and other forms of electronic communication is one of the areas in which prison conditions vary significantly in Germany. The divergent conditions raise several fundamental human rights concerns, such as equal treatment of inmates, the right of resocialization, and the [...]

englischThis first German-language study of yoga in prison comprehensively and interdisciplinarily bundles essential findings about a widespread and yet little-known measure in the penal system. Against the background of the promising international state of research and yoga-theoretical assumptions, [...]

englischCan and should the depiction of extreme violence in the media be legally prohibited? This paper addresses this frequently asked question in a new way by evaluating the legal admissibility of the ban of depiction of violence in § 131 StGB on the basis of empirical research. Therefore, it [...]

englischViolence is an ever occurring, nonacceptable phenomenon in juvenile correctional institutions. Violent excesses, such as in Ichtershausen 2001 and Siegburg 2006, where two inmates were killed, show the severity of this matter. These and other less outrageous crimes oppose the federal [...]

englischAt the point in time, when the examination was carried out, there were 12,000 lay judges in juvenile courts and 700 judges of a juvenile court nationwide. The dimension and the relation of these numbers illustrate, that the lay judges of a juvenile court are important protagonists of a [...]

englischThe problem of Russian organized crime has increasingly attracted attention of scholars, practitioners and media. However, there is still lack of the sound theoretical and conceptual framework and classification of this phenomenon. Based on the analysis of numerous previously unknown Russian [...]