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Criminal trials often attract great public interest. This interest, again, is essential to criminal justice as such, for in democratic states under the rule of law criminal law and its application need to be asserted and accepted within the public discourse. However, most people do not follow criminal trials as spectators in the courtroom, but by means of public media, such as newspapers, television and - increasingly - the internet. Thus, media outlets gain influence on the public opinion and are able to paint the picture of criminal trials according to their own perception. The media tends to overdraw criminal cases rather than to report the unbiased facts. This leads to tensions between possibly diverging interests of the public, of the judiciary and of the media. This volume addresses these tensions from the perspectives of academics and practitioners, who discussed this issue during an interdisciplinary conference held at the Institute for Criminal Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen.

Criminal procedure --- Criminal law --- criminal trials --- media influence --- public opinion --- Bundesverfassungsgericht --- Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts --- Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz --- Neue Juristische Wochenschrift --- Persönlichkeitsrecht --- Strafprozessrecht --- Strafrecht --- Strafzwecktheorie

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Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To deal with these paradoxes, this book looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power, identity, organization, technology and quality.

ass media -- Influence. --- Mass media -- Audiences. --- Mass media -- Social aspects. --- Mass media and culture. --- Mass media --- Citizen participation. --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Participation. --- Influence. --- Audiences. --- Social aspects. --- Communication --- Philosophy --- Culture and mass media --- Culture --- Audiences, Mass media --- Audiences --- Social aspects --- media --- power --- development --- technology --- democracy --- organization --- arts --- identity --- participation --- spatial planning --- Kinoautomat --- Maximalism --- Public sphere