Program Overview

Introduction to the Bachelor Program in Strafrechtspflege

The Bachelor program in Strafrechtspflege is based on the legal foundations for the education, resocialization, and treatment of criminals. In addition to conveying the fundamental principles of criminal law and providing a general overview of the functioning of the criminal justice system, the program focuses on how the criminal justice system relies on empirical, particularly criminological, expertise in the imposition and execution of criminal sanctions and other measures.

Program Structure

The program consists of five compulsory modules.

• Module 1 covers the content of criminal procedure law and the accompanying conveyance of methodological competencies.
• Module 2 combines lectures on juvenile criminal law, sanction law, and the basics of criminology.
• Module 3 deals with legal-historical, particularly criminal law-historical, and legal-philosophical foundations.
• Modules 4 and 5 primarily and in-depth convey criminological knowledge with practical relevance.

Detailed Module Overview

The program's module handbook outlines the specific content of each module:

• Module 1: The general part of criminal law, including the prerequisites for punishability, the structure of the offense, illegality, and guilt, intent and negligence, error doctrines, attempt and completion, as well as punishability in the participation of multiple persons in an offense. Additionally, Module 1 includes an introductory workshop to the minor field of study.
• Module 2: Combines offenses against persons (e.g., murder/manslaughter and bodily harm) with the lecture on criminal procedure law.
• Module 3: Consists of events on juvenile criminal law, sanction law, and the basics of criminology.
• Modules 4 and 5: Convey, predominantly and in-depth, criminological knowledge with practical relevance, culminating in a criminological case analysis in the seminar on applied criminology.

Conclusion

The Bachelor program in Strafrechtspflege provides a comprehensive education in the principles of criminal law, the functioning of the criminal justice system, and criminological expertise, preparing students for a career in this field with a strong foundation in both theoretical and practical aspects.