Die Entwicklung der Gesetzgebung zur Sicherungsverwahrung und die damit verbundenen Auswirkungen auf ihre Klientel

Initially, the article gives a short overview over the expansions of preventive detention the legislator has made in recent years. Secondly, prosecution statistics as well as statistics on enforcement of sentences are analyzed focusing on the effects the change in legislation has on the number and structure of preventive detainees. Hereafter, the author presents the central results of an own study titled ‘Reconviction of Dangerous Recidivists’. These results further the conclusion that there is a considerable amount of persons falsely classified as dangerous amongst today’s preventive detainees.