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The present publication is intended to provide a short, summarized overview of the most important research projects conducted by the Criminological Research Unit of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg during the last years. We have had to select from a lot of different results, so the newest projects without explicit results have not been considered in this volume.We concentrate on the following topics: Research on justice administration and sentencing proceedings, cohort research, victim research, community crime prevention, police and social control, environmental, economic and organized crime and comparative international research.More information on the research projects can be found in the volume: Forschungen zu Kriminalität und Kriminalitätskontrolle am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg. Freiburg 1998.
Around the world, legal information managers, law librarians and other legal information specialists work in many settings: law schools, private law firms, courts, government, and public law libraries of various types. They are characterized by their expertise in working with legal information in its many forms, and by their work supporting legal professionals, scholars, or students training to become lawyers. In an ever-shrinking world and a time of unprecedented technological change, the work of legal information managers is challenging and exciting, calling on specialized knowledge and skills, regardless of where in the world they practice their profession. Their role within legal systems...
Are more people being imprisoned throughout the world? Why is imprisonment still being used on a wide scale when an increasing number of alternatives are available? What are the major developments in prison law in the last decade? What problems arise in prison systems when states become constitutional democracies for the first time? Should prisons be privatized? How can prison conditions and prisoners' rights be improved? What special measures should there be for women, juveniles, violent offenders or drug addicts in prison? What programmes work effectively under which conditions? The second edition of "Imprisonment Today and Tomorrow" presents much fresh information in its attempts to provi...
Die vorliegende Festschrift erscheint zum 70. Geburtstag von Frieder Dünkel. Versammelt sind fünfundfünfzig Beiträge von Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Schülerinnen und Schülern, Mitstreiterinnen und Mitstreitern, Freundinnen und Freunden – viele Autorinnen und Autoren sind dabei mehreren dieser Kategorien zuzuordnen. Zusammengekommen sind dabei Beiträge aus 21 Ländern aus den Bereichen, in denen Frieder Dün-kel forschend und lehrend aktiv war und ist – Kriminologie, Kriminalpolitik, strafrechtliche Sanktionen, Jugendstrafrecht, Straf- und Maßregelvollzug. Es finden sich Rückblicke und Überblicke, Fallstudien und Detailaufnahmen, Dauerbrenner und aktuelle Probleme, Theorie und Empirie, Landesspezifisches, Europäisches und Internationales.