TY - BOOK ID - 50625135 TI - Strafrecht und Medien PY - 2016 SN - 9783863952631 PB - Universitätsverlag Göttingen DB - UniCat KW - Criminal procedure KW - Criminal law KW - criminal trials KW - media influence KW - public opinion KW - Bundesverfassungsgericht KW - Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts KW - Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz KW - Neue Juristische Wochenschrift KW - Persönlichkeitsrecht KW - Strafprozessrecht KW - Strafrecht KW - Strafzwecktheorie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50625135 AB - 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. ER -