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Vergewaltigung und sexuelle Nötigung
(2010)
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 ...
Das Ich und sein Gehirn
(2009)
In recent years, the debate about the free will has gained intensity. The phase of the heated debate has become a more pertinent and interdisciplinary. But still there are misunderstandings, misconceptions or ambiguities, ...
Europäisches Unterhaltsrecht
(2010)
Defining and registering criminal offences and measures
(2010)
The study presented in this book is a direct response to the needs for defining and registering criminal and judicial data on the European level. Based upon work done in creating the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal ...
Lange Jugendstrafen bei jugendlichen und heranwachsenden Gewalt- und Sexualstraftätern
(2018)
The present work examines the execution of long youth penalties amongst juvenile and adolescent offenders convicted of violent and sexual crimes. To investigate the intention of the penal system, which lies in the social ...
Interpretive Social Research
(2018)
This volume is a clear introduction to methods of data collection and analysis in the social sciences, with a special focus on interpretive methods based on a logic of discovering hypotheses and grounded theories. The chief ...
Das Wechselmodell – Reformbedarf im Kindschaftsrecht?
(2018)
This volume brings together the papers of the 15th Göttingen Workshop on Family Law, which was held on the 20th October 2017 in cooperation with the joint project "Power and Powerlessness of Maternity". All in all eight ...
Gemeinsame Elternverantwortung
(2018)
In this volume, the law of parental responsibility in Europe is examined on a comparative basis for Belgium, Germany, England and Wales, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. This closes a gap in the research, as there is ...
The Recreational Frontier
(2017)
This study treats ecotourism in National Protected Areas of Lao PDR as a “recreational frontier” which instrumentalizes the recreation of human natures in capitalism’s centers for that of nonhuman natures at capitalism’s ...
Definitionen und Anerkennung substaatlicher Gruppen im Völkerrecht
(2017)
Minorities, indigenous peoples and local communities have their own status in public international law. Given their position within the politics of a societal majority, they require a certain protection and enjoy particular ...
Open Data Protection
(2017)
This study analyses legal barriers to data sharing in the context of the Open Research Data Pilot, which the European Commission is running within its research
framework programme Horizon2020.
In the first part of the ...
Advances in Fibre Production Science in South American Camelids and other Fibre Animals
(2019)
Animal fibres from South American camelids and other fibre or wool bearing species provide important products for use by the human population. The contemporary context includes the competition with petrocarbon-based ...
Übersetzung als Kulturaustausch
(2019)
The contributions to this volume approach the subject of translation from a multitude of perspectives. They thus show how translations are not only closely connected with notions of language, literature, and cultural studies ...
Established and Outsiders at the Same Time
(2016)
Palestinians frequently present a harmonizing and homogenizing we-image of their own
national we-group, as a way of counteracting Israeli attempts to sow divisions among them,
whether through Israeli politics or through ...
Shakespeare im Spiegelkabinett
(2016)
2014 and 2016, marked by the 450th anniversary of his birthday and the 400th anniversary of his demise respectively, have both been dedicated to the remembrance of William Shakespeare and the celebration of his work through ...
Sichtlich evangelisch
(2017)
Taste | Power | Tradition
(2017)
The idea of origin in terms of space and culture as a special indicator of quality is one of the most influential strands in contemporary food. It impacts on politics, economics and everyday life – and it connects these ...
Synagogen in Göttingen
(2017)
The book "Synagogues in Göttingen: departures and ceasing of Jewish life," deals with the 700-year history of Jewish life in Göttingen and the various synagogues that have been existing since the beginning of the 14th ...
"Helden und Denker" der Pädagogik im Spiegel ihrer Fachlexika von 1774 bis 1945
(2018)
Wer sind die Helden und Denker in Pädagogik und Erziehungswissenschaft, wer ihre Heldinnen und Denkerinnen? Welche Personen werden in den Nachschlagewerken der Disziplin – in ihren Wissensspeichern – mit eigenem Lemma ...
"Ob Dir es sauer wird mit Deiner Nahrung und Ackerwerk, das laß Dich nicht verdrießen, denn Gott hat es also geschaffen"
(2012)
Gottfried Dietrich Wilhelm Berthold (1854-1937) was one the foremost botanists and phycologists at the end of the 19th century. Born and educated in Westphalia, he enrolled at the Georgia Augusta to study plant sciences ...
Grundsätze über die Anlagen neuer Sternwarten
(2005)
The Göttingen Observatory, workplace of the famous scholar Carl Friedrich Gauss, is an important architectural monument. In 2005, it has been reconstructed jointly by the Georg-August-University and the Academy of Sciences ...
Straßenverkehrsdelinquenz in Deutschland
(2015)
Traffic violations represent by far the most significant number of misconducts punished by law. This is due to the fact that the majority of the population actively participates in road traffic. Despite the importance of ...
Sea-changes
(2012)
E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced ...
Bürgerliche Mitgliedschaft in Religionsgemeinschaften
(2013)
This doctoral thesis treats the membership law of churches and religious communities. It discusses the questions of which framework is given by national law, in which cases the rights of religious communities diverges from ...
Das arztrechtliche System als Grenze der arbeitsteiligen Medizin
(2013)
Modern medicine is increasingly characterised by the division of labour. Therefore, this process as well as the concepts of delegation and substitution need to be clarified on a juridical basis. Accordingly, this dissertation ...
Rechtsprobleme und wirtschaftliche Vertretbarkeit einer Kulturflatrate
(2014)
The Internet and the proceeding digitalisation of content - such as music, videos and written texts - have led to profound and complex challenges in the field of Copyright Law, especially with regard to questions of ...
Stele und Legende
(2009)
Sozialperspektivität
(2004)
Social perspective defines the human skill of changing between the point of view of oneself and the other. It takes meta-perspectives and applies them to the different (suspected) point of views. If one knows how the ...
From Darwinian Metaphysics towards Understanding the Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms
(2012)
Although Charles Darwin predicted that his theory “would give zest to [...] metaphysics,” even he would be astonished at the variety of paths his theory has in fact taken. This holds with regard to both gene-Darwinism, a ...
Die doppelte Aphrodite
(2010)
Since the 5th century b. c., archaistic figures were used as a pillar for the statues of Aphrodite and later sometimes also for other gods. The question of design and interpretation is topic of this work. The characteristics ...
Natur als Grenzerfahrung
(2009)
The book presents the results of a conference at the DFG Graduate College on "Interdiscipline History of Ecology" held in December, 2008. Nature has always been a definite factor for man as well as for societies, and in ...
Plastidules to Humans
(2011)
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late ...
Frühe Reisende in Phokis und Lokris
(2009)
Today, detailed reports of travellers, traders and diplomats are interesting and often pleasurable sources for the conditions in Central Greece. This book shows how the landscapes of Phokis and Lokris changed in the medieval ...
Gelehrte Lebensläufe
(2017)
Attend a university? Get married? Graduate? 500 years ago, young men saw themselves already confronted with these questions, however compared to our days, under different social circumstances. Johannes Eck (1486–1543), ...
Bioenergie im Spannungsfeld
(2017)
The challenge of this interdisciplinary research on sustainable bioenergy production in rural areas is how to reconcile the chances and risks of bioenergy production within the context of climate stabilization, resource ...
The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours
(2017)
St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his significance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany ...
"Wir schützen unseren Park"
(2017)
Pendjari National Park in northern Benin is not only a tourist attraction and an area for the protection of biodiversity, it is also a showcase for participatory management approaches. Since its foundation as an animal ...
Die rechtliche Zulässigkeit von Placebokontrollgruppen in Arzneimittelstudien
(2017)
Clinical trials of medicinal products on human subjects are a balancing act between the protection of the study participant and the preservation of his dignity on the one hand and the constant striving for medical progress ...
"Von einem sensationellen Erlebnis zum anderen getrieben..."
(2017)
By the 1920s and early 1930s the dime novel had already become well established as a medium for serial fiction and it developed innovative ways of shaping the temporality of literary communication: Recurring heroes made ...
Ausgezeichnet!
(2016)
Article descriptions such as “Allgäuer Emmentaler,” “Dresdner Christstollen” or “Bayerisches Bier” do not simply name culinary products, but locate them in certain regions and link them to memories and associations. They ...
The Transformational Potential of Higher Education Inclusion
(2017)
In the field of higher education research, one of the most fascinating observations is the consistent and permanent expansion of higher education systems worldwide since the end of the Second World War. Undoubtedly, the ...
Ein Königreich für Kohle?
(2017)
The South African UNESCO world heritage site of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape became the site of a conflict in 2011, when a coal mine was built in close proximity. The area of tension evolved around matters of conservation ...
Zwischen Liebesideal und Realismus
(2018)
What is there left to say about the human condition after the so-called „end of anthropology“? Never before have conceptions of what it means to be a human being been as diverse and fragmented as in the late modern age – ...
Forschung und Lehre als identitätsstiftendes Ideal
(2018)
How has the university been discussed between scientific mission, study and education since the beginning of the Bologna reform? The study examines this question using 1130 articles published in the weekly newspaper DIE ...
Im Diesseits das Jenseits bereiten
(2016)
This study reveals that in medieval Dutch vernacular texts (from the Brabantine authors Jan van Boendale, Lodewijk van Velthem, and Jan van Leeuwen, and in the anonymous Boek van Sidrac) the treatment of individual and ...