Jörg-Martin Jehle Boeken

The study presented in this book is a direct response to the needs for defining and registering criminal and judicial data on the European level. Based upon work done in creating the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (ESB), the project results will improve and complement the standards developed so far for definitions and statistical registration in four fields (police, prosecution, courts, prison), in order to contribute to the picture of criminal justice in Europe. Possibilities to optimize the offence definitions used so far in the ESB context were explored. Also, further crime types, especially those subject to EU-harmonized definition, were tested and introduced. Apart from this, the prosecution chapter of the ESB questionnaire was changed and expanded. Data collection possibilities regarding compulsory measures in the investigatory stage were tested, and a more sophisticated approach for recording sanctions and measures as well as prison data was developed. The study explored how far national statistics can provide such data and developed a concept for collation on European level. It was funded by the European Commission under the AGIS 2006 program.

Anknüpfend an eine lange Tradition deutsch-japanischen Austausches im Recht werden exemplarisch in fünf Abteilungen Rezeptions- und Reformprozesse im Zivilrecht, Zivilprozessrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht; im Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie im Strafrecht. Darüber hinaus wird die reformierte Juristenausbildung an japanischen und deutschen Universitäten behandelt. Grundlage des Bandes bildet das Zweite Rechtswissenschaftliche Symposion Göttingen--Kansai zu 'Rezeption und Reform im deutschen und japanischen Recht', das im September 2006 unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung von rechtswissenschaftlichen Kollegen der Kansai-Universität Osaka und der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen abgehalten wurde. Ihm war ein Erstes Symposion unter dem Titel 'Neue Herausforderungen für Recht und Rechtswissenschaft' in Osaka vorausgegangen.

This book describes the results of a six-nation study of how criminal justice agencies in England and Wales, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden have reacted to high crime rates and punitiveness. The book details how various solutions have been adopted, involving diversion of cases from courts, increases in financial penalties imposed by police or prosecutors without full court hearings and the introduction in some countries of „administrative offences“.

This publication uses selected statistical data to present a realistic picture of punishable behaviour and the prosecution of criminal offences. Beyond this, it aims to provide an insight into how our criminal justice system works. All stages of criminal justice are described, from the work of police, prosecutors and judges, to sentencing, corrections and probation. Criminal Justice in Germany contains a dedicated section with figures on offender-victim mediation. It has been rounded off with a chapter on reoffending and some comparative statistics for Europe. However, a publication of this sort can only paint a picture of selected areas. It would go beyond the scope of this publication to cover all branches of criminal procedure and all available penalties together with the relevant figures. The figures presented in the following chapters have been taken from current statistics, which naturally refer to previous years.

In recent years a general need for policy-oriented criminology has become quite obvious. The existence and the new foundations of corresponding institutions in supranational organizations and in a great number of countries give proof of this development. In this volume are represented contributions on institutions of - the United Nations - the Council of Europe - the United States of America, Australia, Japan and China - various countries of Europe with a special focus on - the Federal Republic of Germany. An introduction gives an overview of the organizations and functions of these institutions. The volume is complemented by an index of the authors and their institutions.