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Incompatible Contrasts? — Preventive Detention in Germany and the European Convention on Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Grischa Merkel

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This article will give an overview of the idea and history of origins of preventive detention and the legal changes in the German Criminal Code that underlie the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (17 December 2009). It will attempt an outlook by considering the prospective outcome of future law suits against German legal statutes relating to preventive detention, and will also describe the present situation and current legal recommendations, including the much-discussed alternative of detention in psychiatric wards. The article will close with a brief comparative look at the related legal problems arising in countries with a criminal law which is based on the establishment of personal guilt of the offender while facing public pressure to detain persons for protective reasons.

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German Law Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 9 , September 2010 , pp. 1046 - 1066
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Copyright © 2010 by German Law Journal GbR 

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