Literature on German Criminal Law

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  1. On reaching a crime scene ahead of the criminal: Dreams of police and technology from the 1970s to today Journal Article
    Sow, Amadou Korbinian (2022)
    In: German Law Journal, 23(4), pp. 597-624
    Legal history Criminal law: theory Police Artificial intelligence Races Crime prevention Public law
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    Open Access
  2. Technological surveillance in the Federal Republic of Germany Contribution
    Shi, Jiahui (2022)
    In: Shi, Jiahui (Eds.), Technological surveillance of communication in American, German and Chinese criminal procedure, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, (Beiträge zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht - Studies in International and European Criminal Law and Procedure, 51), pp. 114-208
    Electronic surveillance Criminal procedure Right of privacy Communications and mass media Legal history Constitutional law
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  3. Penal reform in Imperial Germany : Conflict and compromise Contribution
    Wetzell, Richard F. (2022)
    In: Pifferi, Michele (Eds.), The limits of criminological positivism. The movement for criminal law reform in the west, 1870-1940, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 42-73
    Law reform Legal history Criminal law: theory Criminal law: culpability Criminals Sanctions, Non-criminal years: 1880 - 1945
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  4. Counteraction to offenses against sexual self-determination of minors in criminal law of Germany Contribution
    Manna, Ammar Abdul Karim; Gumel, Naguib Ali Seif El; Saifullina, Maria Ivanovna (2021)
    In: (Eds.), Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice”, SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, pp. 394-399
    Criminal law Offenses against the person Children Internet (computer network) Computer crimes Legal history
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  5. “In the name of the people” Contribution
    Machura, Stefan ; Rennig, Christoph (2021)
    In: Diamond, Shari; Hans, Valerie; Ivković, Sanja; Marder, Nancy (Eds.), Juries, lay judges, and mixed courts. A Global perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 152-173
    Juries and lay judges Courts Legal history Judiciary Criminal procedure Withdrawal of prosecution and plea bargaining Empirical research Law reform
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  6. Universal jurisdiction and international crimes in German courts – recent steps towards exercising the principle of complementarity after the entry into force of the Rome Statute Journal Article
    Safferling, Christoph J.M.; Petrossian, Gurgen (2021)
    In: European Criminal Law Review, 11(2), pp. 242-263
    Jurisdiction Exterritoriality Jurisdiction (international law) International criminal law Criminal policy Rome Statute Legal history Judgments Crimes against humanity Terrorism War crimes
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  7. Rechtswissenschaft revisited Contribution
    Jung, Heike (2021)
    In: Matsuzawa, Shin; Nuotio, Kimmo (Eds.), Methodology of criminal law theory: art, politics or science?, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden, pp. 157-170
    Criminal law: theory Legal history Social sciences
  8. The criminal registry in the German Empire: the ‘cult of previous convictions’ and the offender’s right to be forgotten // The Criminal Registry in the German Empire: The ‘Cult of Previous Convictions’ and the Offender’s Right to Be Forgotten Journal Article
    Groot, Timon (2021)
    In: German History, 39(3), pp. 358-376
    Records Criminal policy Legal history Right of privacy
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    Open Access
  9. Preventive detention in Germany and Europe Contribution
    Drenkhahn, Kirstin ; Morgenstern, Christine (2020)
    In: Felthous, Alan; Sass, Henning (Eds.), Diagnosis and treatment, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, (The Wiley international handbook on psychopathic disorders and the law, Volume I), pp. 87-106
    Arrest, detention and bail Sanctions, Criminal Sanctions, Non-criminal Criminal law: culpability Recidivism Legal history Comparative law European Union and national law (relationship) European Court of Human Rights Judgments Mental health
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  10. Police law Contribution
    Pauer-Studer, Herlinde (2020)
    In: Pauer-Studer, Herlinde (Eds.), Justifying injustice. Legal theory in Nazi Germany, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 158-177
    National Socialism Police Legal history Holocaust / Shoah
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  11. National socialist criminal law Contribution
    Pauer-Studer, Herlinde (2020)
    In: Pauer-Studer, Herlinde (Eds.), Justifying injustice. Legal theory in Nazi Germany, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 79-115
    National Socialism Criminal law Legal history
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  12. The suspect as a source of information Contribution
    Weigend, Thomas (2020)
    In: Eidam, Lutz; Lindemann, Michael; Ransiek, Andreas (Eds.), Interrogation, confession, and truth. Comparative studies in criminal procedure, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden, (Schriften zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht, Band 43), pp. 11-28
    Comparative law Admissions and confessions Defendant/Defense/Defense counsel (criminal procedure) Criminal procedure Criminal investigation Legal history Criminal interrogation Evidence: criminal law
  13. About the criminal liability of wives for adultery: a classic example of oppressing women. Reflections on legal history. Pre-state societies, the code of Hammurabi with sumerian precursors, and Germanic law Contribution
    Krey, Volker (2020)
    In: Decken, Kerstin; Günzel, Angelika (Eds.), Staat – Religion – Recht, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden, pp. 63-90
    Discrimination Legal history Offenses against morals Women
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  14. Historical development of leniency programs in Germany Contribution
    Heinrich, Bernd (2020)
    In: Eisele, Jörg (Eds.), Past and future. Transitional justice versus traditional criminal justice? : Ways of dealing with past conflicts and past autocracies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden, (Beiträge zum Strafrecht - Contributions to Criminal Law, ), pp. 111-130
    Transitional justice Evidence: criminal law Legal history Withdrawal of prosecution and plea bargaining Criminal law: theory Prosecuting and public attorney Sentences Statutes
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  15. The development of the German criminal law of evidence 1750-1879 Contribution
    Bloemberg, Ronnie (2020)
    In: Bloemberg, Ronnie (Eds.), The development of the criminal law of evidence in the Netherlands, France, and Germany between 1750 and 1870. From the system of legal proofs to the free evaluation of the evidence, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, (Legal history library, 32), pp. 177-246
    Evidence: criminal law Law reform Legal history