The Acquittal - A great Unknown of the Criminal Justice System - An Empirical Study of the Practical Meaning of Acquittals after Pretrial Detention and its Causes -

无罪释放——刑事司法制度的一大未知数——审前羁押后无罪释放的现实意义及其原因的实证研究——

• 批准号: 259974409
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jörg Kinzig
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Kriminologie, Straf- und Sanktionenrecht
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/259974409?language=en
• 关键词: Acquittal; great; Unknown; Criminal; Justice

As we carved out elaborately in the first-time proposal of the research-program The Acquittal - an Unknown of the Criminal Justice System? (Project no. KI 689/5-1), the scientific landscape of empirical criminology lacks in a differentiating analysis of the frequency and the importance of the acquittal. The research-group aims at closing this gap. It is to be clarified if an acquittal is more of an inevitable frictional loss of justice (Merbreier, 1970), or an avoidable error of the criminal justice system. The analysis of the statistics of law enforcement was conducted as scheduled in the first-time proposal. By contrast, the analysis of court files was considerably postponed due to delayed handling on the part of the Statistical State Offices on the one hand and the public prosecutor´s offices on the other. These delays led to the unexpected circumstance that the investigation of the court files could not have been finished until spring 2016. As the results of the court file-analysis are to form the basis of the planned expert interviews, those can only be conducted if the research team completed the investigation of about 300 proceedings of acquittals with pre-trial custody. The interviews are hence to discuss the results and to answer open questions resulting from them. Besides the continuation and consolidation of the court-file-analysis, the focus of the additionally requested funding period therefore lies on the realization and evaluation of the expert interviews. The existing temporary results indicate that the continuation of the research-program let expect to contribute significantly to research.

正如我们在研究项目《无罪释放--刑事司法系统的未知之处》的首次提案中精心设计的那样？（项目编号KI 689/5-1），经验犯罪学的科学景观缺乏对无罪释放的频率和重要性的区别分析。研究小组的目标是缩小这一差距。需要澄清的是，无罪释放更多的是一种不可避免的司法摩擦损失（Merbreier，1970年），还是刑事司法系统的一种可避免的错误。执法统计数据的分析按第一次提案中的计划进行。相比之下，由于国家统计局和检察官办公室处理工作的延误，对法院档案的分析被大大推迟。这些延误导致了意想不到的情况，即对法院档案的调查直到2016年春季才完成。由于法庭档案分析的结果将构成计划进行的专家访谈的基础，只有在研究小组完成对约300起无罪开释和审前拘留诉讼的调查之后，才能进行专家访谈。因此，访谈是为了讨论结果，并回答由此产生的开放性问题。因此，除了继续和巩固法庭档案分析外，额外请求的供资期间的重点在于实现和评价专家访谈。现有的临时结果表明，研究计划的继续有望为研究做出重大贡献。