Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Mr Jan-Michael Simon, Günterstalstraße 73, 79100 Freiburg
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The focus of the training programme is criminal law, both as an instrument of societal protection and as the basis for a humane and democratic criminal policy that is based on the rule of law. In the context of increasing worldwide interaction, at the core of the research is the integration and internationalisation of criminal law, its international institutionalisation, and its limits. On the basis of new findings concerning criminality and the development of criminal behaviour, the aim of the research is to gain insight into the degrees of convergence and divergence among criminal justice systems and to investigate the potential for social control, the limits and the trends of criminal law. Essential for this undertaking is above all the comparative analysis of the structural interrelationships in criminal law against a backdrop of diverse social conditions and different philosophical traditions.