Standard punishment
The unit punishment is a term from the German juvenile criminal law regulated in the Juvenile Court Act (JGG) .
In principle, German criminal law provides , in cases in which a criminal has committed several offenses in a majority of cases, that several individual penalties are formed for the individual offenses , which are then combined into an overall penalty . This is regulated in §§ 53 ff. StGB .
However, since German juvenile criminal law does not have the basic idea of punishment , but rather the educational aspect of conviction is in the foreground, the legislature has established the unitary penalty. This is based on the assumption that only one uniform punishment should be created for several independent punishments , as otherwise the intended educational effect could not be maintained. However, the maximum limits set for the youth penalty ( Section 31 (1) JGG) must not be exceeded even if the sentence is summarized in one sentence .
Another special feature is that the criminal justice judge also has the option of including previously sentenced sentences that are already legally binding in the standard sentence . However, if he considers this to be educationally unnecessary or absurd, he can also refrain from doing so (Section 31 (2) and (3) JGG).
