KriPoZ - criminal policy Journal (e-Journal)

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Anja Schiemann
• Subject Area: Criminology ; Criminal Law
• Term: from 2019 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 423454703

KriPoZ is a free online magazine for criminal politics with a corresponding homepage. Criminal politics is a part of legal politics and deals especially with criminal law, criminal trial law, the penal system and criminal prevention. The assignment of legal politics is to search for the most efficient way of criminal justice and at the same time considerate the dignity of man, the civil rights and the principle of proportionality. Especially in the region of criminal politics, a quick scientific response to reform proposals and planned legislation amendments is inalienable. Pure print media are not able to ensure this reaction and restrict themselves mostly to comment legislation amendments that have already become effective. Next to a quick reaction on reform proposals, "KriPoZ" offers the possibility, even before the implementation of a legislation amendment, to make the scientific juridical discussion available to other disciplines and to a broad public. With the magazines published 6 times a year and themed booklets a forum was created to examine reform proposal in an interdisciplinary way. This can contribute to influence a reform process and to unite the different disciplines with the focus on a certain topic. Through online publishing one is more flexible and faster to react to political reform proposals than in print media and is able to influence a reform process. Because the capacity of pages is not limited as in print media, enough virtual space can be provided to take a stance on current propositions. The possibility to publish in English leads to an international visibility which is moreover ensured by an international editorial team. However, the magazines are published as pdf-editions, an accurate citation by pages as in traditional print media will be assured as weil as a storage and search function will be submitted. Furthermore the content of "KriPoZ" is emitted search engine-friendly by using the content-management-system "WordPress". The search engines are notified about the publishing of new content through the so called "Ping Feature". This leads to a significantly faster indexing in search engines as in other CMS-systems that a fast dissemination of content is secured. Alongside the articles, the "KriPoZ" homepage serves as a reference to current propositions and to offer directly the corresponding printed matters, ministerial draft bills and possibly available statements. A comment function within the framework of the published contributions and draft laws makes it possible to comment directly on the articles. This enables the author as well as the readers to take notice of the response to the article directly and informal which will furthermore encourages the discussion. This combination of scientific journal, editorial preparation of current legal policy topics and provision of a discussion platform is unique and has not yet been offered.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)