englischThe thesis evaluates of the reform of sexual criminal law introduced in 2016, in particular the "no means no" solution.
It discusses the altered understanding of the protected right to sexual self-determination and analyses the dogmatics of the new Section 177 StGB. In addition, it examines [...]
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englischAs a novelty, the procedural elements of substantive criminal law have attracted more and more attention in German and Chinese criminal law in recent years. The reason for this is that, on the one hand, procedural criminal law offers the possibility of impunity for the addressee of the norm [...]
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englischSexual abuse is widespread, particularly in situations where one person holds a position of power and the other person is dependent on that power. This study focuses on the sexual abuse cases in certain institutions regulated in §§ 174a-c of the German Criminal Code (StGB). The objective of [...]
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englischThe publication concentrates on current issues at the intersection of the general part of criminal law and the specific subject matter of economic criminal law. It contains the lectures held by Hans Achenbach, Jörg Eisele, Christian Schröder and Detlev Sternberg-Lieben in July 2022 at the [...]
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englischThis study addresses the phenomenon of domestic burglary (§ 244 (1) No. 3, (4) German Criminal Code). Particular emphasis is placed on the realities of criminal sentencing for this offense. Based on a multi-perspective analysis of the various appearances of the phenomenon and its legal [...]
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englischThe "legal consequences of the act" (§§ 38-76b German Criminal Code) are a little-researched field and yet enormously multi-faceted and relevant to practice. On this topic, nine post-docs discuss current issues from a dogmatic, criminological, or criminal policy perspective.
The [...]
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englischCan German criminal law on corruption be improved by new regulatory models? This conference volume presents instruments from the international toolbox of criminal law against corruption that are largely unknown in Germany and examines the question of whether they should be adopted in German [...]
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englischHate on the Internet not only hurts those directly affected – no less than democratic society itself is threatened. This anthology offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of various facets of the phenomenon of "digital hate. For this purpose, findings from social science, [...]
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englischPursuant to Article 100 (1) of the Basic Law, German criminal judges are entitled – and may even be obliged – to call upon the Federal Constitutional Court in order to have the constitutionality of particular rules of substantive or procedural criminal law clarified in a binding manner. [...]
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englischThe paper questions the postulate of case law according to which the prohibition to use evidence constitutes an exception to the obligation to investigate the truth that requires justification and reconstructs the prohibition of use from the principle of equality of arms. For this purpose, a [...]
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