Cross-Departmental Projects

Completed Projects

Locked Up and Left Behind? Legal and Practical Conditions for Telephone Contacts of Imprisoned People

Heads of project: Michael Kilchling, Gunda Wössner
Access to telephone and other forms of electronic communication is one of the areas in which prison conditions vary significantly in Germany. The divergent conditions raise several fundamental human rights concerns, such as equal treatment of… more

The Dynamics of Recidivism

Heads of project: Tatjana Hörnle, Carina Tetal
The severity of criminal sanctions targeting child pornography, that is, offenses involving child sexual exploitation material (CSEM), is often justified as necessary to prevent future child sexual abuse. This project examined the plausibility of this… more

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