Fakten zur Überbelegung im Strafvollzug und Wege zur Reduzierung von Gefangenenraten

Dünkel, Frieder; Geng, Bernd

doi:10.5771/0934-9200-2003-4-146

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“…Another way may be the shaping of alternatives to prison sentences. According to some federal states, extending the programmes of charitable work under the guidance of the penitentiary system could lead to an explicit relaxation of overcrowding in prisons (Dü nkel & Geng 2003). Using charitable work as a default and resorting to imprisonment only when such work is not accepted should also be considered.…”

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“…Instead of increasing the number of cells and expanding the prison system as done by countries like the USA, England or the Netherlands, German lawyers, jurists, psychiatrists and criminologists call for specific measures to shorten or even avoid imprisonment. For example, the Scandinavian countries were able to significantly reduce their imprisonment rates (Dü nkel & Geng 2003). The model appears to be a winÁwin strategy: on the one hand, it greatly reduces the maintenance costs; on the other hand, the extreme interference with the private and social life of the offender, as well as the psychosocial consequential losses for the imprisoned and his relatives, are minimized.…”

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Punishing the disoriented? Medical and criminological implications of incarcerating patients with mental disorders for failing to pay a fine

Müller‐Foti¹,

Robertz²,

Schildbach³

et al. 2007

International Journal of Prisoner Health

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According to the German penal code, offenders can basically be sanctioned to a prison sentence or (in cases of misdemeanours) to a fine. If an offender is sentenced to a fine, but is not able or willing to make the payment, then the German state can administer a custodial sentence as a replacement. This is called an ''Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe'' (EFS). The proportion of EFS prisoners accounts for 10% of the German prison population and thus appears to be strikingly high considering the consequences of an imprisonment for the detainee. It has been considered that this is due to high levels of mental disorders in the population of EFS prisoners. This article thus aims at delineating the prevalence of mental disorders in EFS prisoners according to socio-demographic data and ICD-10 diagnoses of two recent German studies. Results of these studies indicate that EFS prisoners indeed are for the most part socially and economically deprived and show a high prevalence of mental disorders. It is argued that their resulting lack of social competence may lead to incapability of avoiding their fee being converted into a prison sentence. As a consequence EFSs have to be seen as supporting social stigmatization and risking a further exclusion from society.

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