Das Bundesverfassungsgericht und der US Supreme Court zur Sicherungsverwahrung gefährlicher, strafrechtlich verantwortlicher Straftäter

'The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the U.S. Supreme Court on Preventive Detention'

Owing to increased emphasis in criminal law policy on security, utilization of the instrument of preventive detention has gradually been extended in Germany and the United States since the end of the past century. It is therefore appropriate to conduct a comparative study of how two constitutional courts have approached the same constitutional challenges. It will be outlined that disparate solutions are generated mainly because of a different understanding of the proper handling of criminals.