Wie Wasser von Klippe zu Klippe geworfen

The discussion about the suitable approach to preventive detainees conceals the fact that the general treatment of serial and intensive offenders still does not represent a satisfactorily solved problem. This is just as true for the stage of immediate imprisonment as for the periods before and after. The author, for decades one of the driving forces of penal reform, explains his reasons for the continuing need for action.