englischThe author examines the legal classification and the constitutional limits of the state's use of artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning, to identify unknown crimes ("Smart Suspicion Generation"). According hereto, the Smart Suspicion Generation can lead to a suspicion in [...]

englischIn several prisons in Germany, so-called “prison visit projects” or “juvenile awareness projects” are offered for at-risk youths or juvenile offenders. The visit to a prison and discussions with inmates are intended to show the consequences of (further) delinquency at first hand and to lead [...]

englischFor decades, cases of autonomous self-endangerment and consensual endangerment by third parties have been treated as constellations of objective attribution by jurisprudence as well as by the prevailing theory, whereby their contentual differentiation is made by means of the criterion of [...]

englischThis thesis investigates how tax law can be used to fight corruption. The taxation procedure is particularly well-suited as a starting point for further criminal proceedings in cases involving corruption in the context of economic crime. However, the collaboration between law enforcement and [...]

englischPromising an easy solution to problems of individual criminal responsibility, the concept of negligent complicity has gained many supporters in a short period of time. Jacob Böhringer illustrates that problems suited to solving with the help of this concept are seldom questions of causality [...]

englischThe issues concerning the special provision on the error characteristic for the German law of resisting an officer are still of current interest. In the light of the recent criminal policy debate the matter demands a fundamental clarification as well as a critical approach towards generally [...]

Kernstück der Untersuchung ist der Vergleich der Hochverratsvorschriften (§§ 81, 83 StGB) mit den §§ 129, 129a StGB. Hierbei wird die Tendenz zu einer immer weiteren Vorverlagerung des Strafrechtsschutzes untersucht und kritisch beleuchtet. Gerade im Bereich des Staatsschutzstrafrechts befindet sich [...]

englischIn his doctoral thesis Felix Diehl examines a School Shooting from criminological and criminal law perspective. After years of planning, a young perpetrator, who was psychopathologically disturbed in a serious manner, commited a School Shooting at his school in order to become famous by [...]

Der Band beinhaltet die Ergebnisse der dreijährigen deutsch-türkischen Projektforschung der seit 2009 bestehenden Alexander-von-Humboldt-Institutspartnerschaft der Strafrechtsinstitute der JLU Gießen, der staatlichen Univ. Istanbul und der Kültür Univ. Istanbul. Ziel war es, die Verankerung der 2005 [...]

Aus Angst und Skepsis gegenüber Impfungen infizieren Eltern durch die Veranstaltung sogenannter Masernpartys ihre Kinder mit dem Masernvirus, damit diese die lebenslange Immunität gegen den Erreger erlangen. Roth untersucht in seiner Dissertation die Frage, ob die Veranstaltung einer sogenannten [...]