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  1. Chapter V, Asset recovery office’s activities and management of frozen and confiscate assets – Country report: Germany Contribution
    Heger, Martin; Sakellaraki, Anna (2025)
    In: Maugeri, Anna (Eds.), Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders, Pisa University Press, pp. 1403-1420
    Sanctions, Criminal Restitution and unjust enrichment Search and seizure Bankruptcy European Union and national law (relationship)
    Open Access PDF 127.5 KB
  2. Chapter IV, The application of the regulation (EU) 2018/1805 to legal persons and enterprises – Country report: Germany Contribution
    Heger, Martin; Sakellaraki, Anna (2025)
    In: Maugeri, Anna (Eds.), Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders, Pisa University Press, pp. 1091-1106
    European Law: general European Union and national law (relationship) Persons Corporations Corporations: criminal liability Criminal procedure Economic crimes and offenses Sanctions, Criminal Sanctions, Administrative Restitution and unjust enrichment Search and seizure
    Open Access PDF 129.1 KB
  3. Chapter III, Practical obstacles and legal issues in the implementation of the regulation (EU) 2018/1805 – Country report: Germany Contribution
    Heger, Martin; Sakellaraki, Anna (2025)
    In: Maugeri, Anna (Eds.), Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders, Pisa University Press, pp. 835-852
    European Law: criminal law and procedure Judicial statistics Sanctions, Criminal Sanctions, Administrative Restitution and unjust enrichment Search and seizure
    Open Access PDF 264.4 KB
  4. Chapter II, Establishing the subject matter of the regulation (EU) 2018/1805. National confiscation models covered by the regulation: types, features and safeguard – Country report: Germany Contribution
    Heger, Martin; Sakellaraki, Anna (2025)
    In: Maugeri, Anna (Eds.), Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders, Pisa University Press, pp. 153-188
    European Law: general European Union and national law (relationship) Sanctions, Criminal Sanctions, Administrative Restitution and unjust enrichment Search and seizure
    Open Access PDF 204.8 KB
  5. Digital evidence and the cooperation of service providers in Germany Contribution
    Brodowski, Dominik (2025)
    In: Franssen, Vanessa; Tosza, Stanislaw (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of digital evidence in criminal investigations, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 289-308
    Criminal procedure Evidence: criminal law Experts, expert witnesses and scientific evidence Witnesses Internet World Wide Web (information retrieval system) Computers Computer software Communications and mass media Search and seizure Social media Civil rights International judicial assistance
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  6. Narrative construction of power and knowledge in the police: Suspicion and defining the deviant Contribution
    Dangelmaier, Tamara (2022)
    In: Porsché, Yannik; Scholz, Ronny; Singh, Jaspal (Eds.), Institutionality. Studies of discursive and material (re-)ordering, Springer, Cham, (Springer eBook Collection, ), pp. 429-448
    Police / Policing Crime prevention Search and seizure Criminal law: theory
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  7. Police stops in Germany – Between legal rules and informal practices Journal Article
    Aden, Hartmut; Bosch, Alexander; Fährmann, Jan; Thurn, Roman (2022)
    In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 11(2), pp. 116-131
    Police / Policing Search and seizure Crime prevention Empirical research
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  8. How institutional contexts shape police-adolescent encounters. A study of France and Germany Journal Article
    Oberwittler, Dietrich; Roché, Sebastian (2022)
    In: Policing and Society, 32(3), pp. 378-410
    Criminal law: juveniles Police / Policing Comparative law Empirical research Violence Search and seizure Discrimination Minorities
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  9. Different styles of policing : discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and Germany Contribution
    de Maillard, Jacques; Hunold, Daniela; Oberwittler, Dietrich (2022)
    In: Roché, Sebastian; de Maillard, Jacques (Eds.), The rise of comparative policing, Routledge, London, pp. 93-106
    Police / Policing Sociology Criminology Empirical research Search and seizure Minorities Criminal investigation
  10. The handling of digital evidence in Germany Contribution
    Gless, Sabine; Wahl, Thomas (2021)
    In: Caianiello, Michele; Camon, Alberto (Eds.), Digital forensic evidence. Towards common European standards in antifraud administrative and criminal investigations, Wolters Kluwer, Milano, (Collezione di giustizia penale, 7), pp. 49-86
    Criminal procedure Search and seizure Criminal investigation Evidence: criminal law Data protection Surveillance (electronic or fixed) Information law and legislation Information storage and retrieval systems Databases Communications and mass media Right of privacy Defendant/Defense/Defense counsel (criminal procedure)
  11. Legendierte Polizeikontrollen: Judgment from the German Federal Court of Justice ( Bundesgerichtshof ) of April 26, 2017, 2 StR 247/16 Journal Article
    Karbe, Dorothee; Jawurek, Charlotte; Sarder, Philipp (2020)
    In: German Law Journal, 21(4), pp. 756-774
    Police / Policing Crime prevention Criminal investigation Search and seizure Criminal law: constitutional aspects Criminal procedure Drug abuse and crime Evidence: criminal law Due process of law
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  12. Mobile phones as a source of evidence in German criminal procedure Contribution
    Weigend, Thomas (2019)
    In: (Eds.), Essays in Honor of Masahito Innouye, , Tokyo, pp. 877-894
    Criminal procedure Evidence: criminal law Communications and mass media Data protection Right of privacy Surveillance (electronic or fixed) Criminal investigation Search and seizure Computers Electronics Information storage and retrieval systems Defendant/Defense/Defense counsel (criminal procedure)
  13. Different styles of policing : discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and Germany Journal Article
    de Maillard, Jacques; Hunold, Daniela; Roché, Sebastian; Oberwittler, Dietrich (2018)
    In: Policing and Society, 28(2), pp. 175-188
    Police / Policing Sociology Criminology Empirical research Search and seizure Minorities Criminal investigation
    DOI
  14. ‘I’d like to see your identity cards please’ – negotiating authority in police–adolescent encounters: Findings from a mixed-method study of proactive police practices towards adolescents in two German cities Journal Article
    Hunold, Daniela; Oberwittler, Dietrich; Lukas, Tim (2016)
    In: European Journal of Criminology, 13(5), pp. 590-609
    Police / Policing Criminology Search and seizure Criminal law: juveniles Minorities Empirical research
    DOI
  15. Exchange of intercepted electronic communication data between foreign countries Contribution
    Wahl, Thomas (2016)
    In: Boulet, Gertjan; Hert, Paul; Polčák, Radim; Sieber, Ulrich; Tropina, Tatiana; von zur Mühlen, Nicolas (Eds.), Access to telecommunication data in criminal justice. A comparative analysis of European legal orders, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, (Schriftenreihe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht. S, Strafrechtliche Forschungsberichte, Band 156), pp. 570-599
    International judicial assistance Council of Europe European Union and national law (relationship) Treaties International agencies International law Surveillance (electronic or fixed) Communications and mass media Right of privacy Confidential communications Criminal procedure Search and seizure Criminal investigation Evidence: criminal law