Threshold offender

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As a threshold offenders , even repeat offenders in the are criminology such children and young people referred, in which subsequent intensive criminal careers emerge early in kindergarten or elementary school. They are also called risk children .

Anomalies such as violations of discipline, lack of punctuality, regular skipping of school lessons , low self-control, acts of violence and involvement in socially negatively conspicuous youth groups and gangs are recorded. However, adult offenders who are only on the threshold of becoming an intensive offender are also referred to as threshold offenders . In terms of the type and number of offenses, however, it is not yet sufficient for classification as an intensive offender.

Threshold perpetrators have already appeared several times to the police. The quality of the commission of the crime is particularly important in the area of ​​violent, property or narcotic crime. The quantity of criminal offenses as well as the social situation of the perpetrators lead to a negative prognosis (risk of repetition), so that the further criminal career threatens to solidify.

The federal states responsible for security law have developed their own programs for general prevention, criminal prosecution and relapse prevention ( prevention ) for threshold offenders . There are also local solutions, such as the Neukölln model initiated by Berlin criminal judge Kirsten Heisig .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Winterhoff : Why our children become tyrants: Or: The abolition of childhood. With the collaboration of Carsten Tergast. Gütersloher publishing house; Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-06980-7
  2. ↑ Hans-Dieter Schwind : Kriminologie , 21st edition, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7832-0809-2
  3. ↑ Cross- agency case conferences for young threshold offenders and intensive offenders House of Bremen Citizenship, December 8, 2011
  4. ^ Matthias Thoms: "Minors threshold and intensive offenders". Lower Saxony state framework concept in: Hans-Jürgen Kerner, Erich Marks (eds.), Internet documentation of the German Prevention Day. Hanover 2011
  5. ↑ For example in Lower Saxony: Combating child and youth delinquency ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Joint circular of Lower Saxony ministries Nds.MBl. No. 34/2009 p. 751 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schure.de
  6. ^ Jan-Volker Schwind: Intensive offenders and intensive offender programs of the police - based on violence by young male law breakers. A criminalistic-criminological study Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2012