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Abstract
Violence is an ever occurring, nonacceptable phenomenon in juvenile correctional institutions. Violent excesses, such as in Ichtershausen 2001 and Siegburg 2006, where two inmates were killed, show the severity of this matter. These and other less outrageous crimes oppose the federal protection and education mandate and therefore need to be reduced.
The author not only examines the phenomenon of violence among juvenile male inmates in detail. But also presents findings obtained from the DFG-funded project “violence and suicide in juvenile correctional institutions” in Cologne, Germany. She also analyses the collected data under consideration of several aspects such as a regional concentration in the use of violence.
This thesis, built upon recent findings and drawn conclusions, provides new incentives for further scientific examinations, but also remarkable implications for applications in practice.
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