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KURS (conception for dealing with sexual offenders at risk of relapse, originally KURS ) is a program set up in 2007 by the state of Lower Saxony to monitor released sex offenders .
Lower Saxony was the second federal state after Bavaria to introduce such a concept. In the following years, all federal states introduced comparable concepts.
Goal and methods
The aim of the concept is to reduce the risk of recidivism for sex offenders who are under management supervision. To pursue this goal, an extensive data collection and "consistent use of the legal possibilities in the area of criminal and hazard prevention law" serve.
Comparable information systems for monitoring sex offenders at risk of relapse exist in all other German federal states.
criticism
Critics expressed doubts as to whether these programs have a sufficient legal basis and whether the interference with the right to informational self-determination of persons who have been released after serving a prison sentence is acceptable. In 2010, the Freiburg Administrative Court sentenced the state of Baden-Württemberg not to carry out a corresponding monitoring of the plaintiff; According to the court in Baden-Württemberg, there was no legal basis for years of uninterrupted surveillance around the clock of sex offenders who were thought to be at risk of relapse for the purpose of preventing renewed sexual offenses. In contrast, the administrative court in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, dismissed an action against the surveillance.
literature
- Axel Dessecker: The changes in management supervision . In: Probation Assistance - Social-Criminal Law-Criminal Policy No. 3, 2011, 267–279.
- Stefan Bock, 10 years risk management consultant in Lower Saxony . In: Probation Assistance - Social Criminal Law. Criminal Policy No. 2, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concept for dealing with sex offenders at risk of relapse in Lower Saxony (KURS Lower Saxony)
- ↑ https://openjur.de/u/608556.html
- ↑ Sex offenders may be monitored . Der Spiegel, November 24, 2011.