TY - JOUR
T1 - From Strasbourg, with Love' "” Preventive detention before the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights
AU - Michaelsen, Christopher
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Over the last two years, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG), and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have handed down several decisions on the legality of the German practice of detaining serious criminal offenders for preventive purposes after their original prison sentence had expired. Preventive detention, so-called Sicherungsverwahrung, has been part of German criminal law for over 80 years.
AB - Over the last two years, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG), and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have handed down several decisions on the legality of the German practice of detaining serious criminal offenders for preventive purposes after their original prison sentence had expired. Preventive detention, so-called Sicherungsverwahrung, has been part of German criminal law for over 80 years.
UR - https://ezproxy.uws.edu.au/login?url=http://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngr046
M3 - Article
SN - 1461-7781
VL - 12
SP - 148
EP - 167
JO - Human Rights Law Review
JF - Human Rights Law Review
IS - 1
ER -
