Heightened crime rates across Europe have led to increased workloads for police, prosecution and courts systems and resources have not risen in line. Each country has coped with this mismatch of workload and resources in its own way and in most cases the practices and powers of each of the agencies involved have needed to be changed as a reaction to this.

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. It shows how various solutions have been found, 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."

The book reveals the fast-moving and far reaching changes that are now in process involving wide-scale changes to the way justice is being delivered throughout the EU.

It is with distinct pleasure that I accepted the invitation by Professor Gappinger to write a foreword to Life Style and Criminality, which is the English-language report on the comparative study of young offenders conducted by the Institute of Criminology of Tiibingen University, and a rendition of the content of two of the author's works based on this study and bearing the German titles Der Tater in seinen sozialen Beziigen (The Offender in his Social Relationships) and Ange- wandte Kriminologie (Applied Criminology). I consider that the availability in English translation of these Tiibingen studies by Professor Gappinger should be of considerable interest to American criminolo- gists. Professor Gappinger is a well-known criminologist in his country, whose vo- luminous textbook in criminology recently appeared in its fourth edition. Profes- sor Gappinger holds degrees in law and medicine, and throughout his life has made use of both of these background orientations and competencies in his work.

Heightened crime rates across Europe have led to increased workloads for police, prosecution and courts systems and resources have not risen in line. Each country has coped with this mismatch of workload and resources in its own way and in most cases the practices and powers of each of the agencies involved have needed to be changed as a reaction to this.

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. It shows how various solutions have been found, 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."

The book reveals the fast-moving and far reaching changes that are now in process involving wide-scale changes to the way justice is being delivered throughout the EU.

This volume comments on the Code of Execution of Prison Sentences. Editors and authors are experienced in the field of prisons, prison administration, crime policy and research. This standard work has been brought up to date for the fourth edition.

Mit den Grundbegriffen der Kriminologie Tater, Taten, Opfer" war die Thematik der 12. Wissen-schaftlichen Fachtagung der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft umrissen worden, die vom 29. September bis 1. Oktober 2011 an der Universitat Heidelberg stattfand. Wie stets bei den Tagungen der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft ging es sowohl um Grundlagenfragen als auch um aktuelle Probleme der Kriminalitat und ihrer Kontrolle.. Die meisten Tagungsvortrage wurden von den Referentinnen und Referenten fur die Drucklegung uberarbeitet. Die mehr als 50 abgedruckten Aufsatze sind in 10 unterschiedliche Abteilungen thematisch gruppiert. Taterbezogen befassen sich die ersten beiden Abteilungen mit Entwicklungskriminologie und kriminellen Karrieren sowie mit gefahrlichen Straftatern, insbesondere hinsichtlich Gewalttaten. Eine weitere Abteilung betrifft das Opfer, Straftaten mit besonderem Opferbezug sowie den Opferschutz im Strafverfahren. Im vierten Abschnitt geht es um Kriminalitatsformen, die sich auf moderne technische, insbesondere digitale Entwicklungen beziehen. Weitere Abteilungen haben wirtschaftskriminologische Fragen bezogen auf den Wirtschaftsstraftater, die Bedeutung von Wertorientierungen fur Kriminalitat, die strafrechtliche Sozialkontrolle, die Jugendstrafrechtspflege sowie Statistiken und Prognosen zum Gegenstand. Schliesslich werden die kriminologische Ausbildungssituation in Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz behandelt