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Few crimes capture the interest and attention of the public as sexual driven crime. Relapsing sex offenders especially spark debates on how best to deal with this particular group. Incidents of serious sexual crimes are, fortunately, rare in Germany which partly complicates empirical research into sexual criminality. This study aims to contribute to an understanding of sexual crimes by providing an overview of such offences in Germany by nature of the offence, offender-types, penalties and (partially) criminal careers from the perspective of judicial oversight of sexual crime. The study examines 9,430 sexual offenders from all over Germany based on data from the Federal Central Criminal Register where either custodial sentences were served or non-custodial sanctions imposed in the base year. It tracks the sample group over six years comparing their outcomes with other non-sexual offender types.

Sex crimes.

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Sex crimes --- Rape kits --- Investigation

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Sexual violence attains a high level of public attention, almost daily the media report about it. Also for the crime and justice policy, it was always a reason to discuss the sharpening and expansion of sentences. More astonishing is that hardly anyone has examined why relatively many persons is suspected of sexual violence, but only a small percentage is ever sentenced. This volume is intended to provide new insights by describing on the one hand the identified issues, and on the other hand analysing identification processes, selection processes and sentencing. This will be based on a census of investigations in two court districts in Lower Saxony. Sexuelle Gewalt kann einer hohen öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit gewiss sein; fast täglich wird in den Medien darüber berichtet. Auch für die Kriminal- und Rechtspolitik war sie immer wieder Anlass, Strafschärfungen vorzunehmen und das Maßregelrecht auszubauen. Um so erstaunlicher ist es, dass kaum jemand untersucht hat, wieso relativ viele Personen wegen sexuellen Gewalthandlungen verdächtigt, aber nur ein kleiner Prozentsatz deswegen verurteilt wird. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll hierzu neue Erkenntnisse liefern, indem sie einerseits die ermittelten Sachverhalte beschreibt und andererseits Ermittlungsvorgänge, Selektionsprozesse und Strafzumessung analysiert. Dies erfolgt anhand einer Vollerhebung von Ermittlungsverfahren eines Jahrgangs in zwei niedersächsischen Landgerichtsbezirken.

Rape --- Sex crimes --- Criminal law

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Mandatory sentences --- Sentences (Criminal procedure) --- Sex crimes

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Sex crimes --- Sexual abuse victims. --- Prevention.