CURRICULUM

The project is accompanied by the following training events for the participating students. These are made available here on the website for all locations.

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You can access the lectures by clicking on the images, for the required password please contact us via info[at]wiederaufnahme.com.

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Introduction to the right of retrial (Prof. Dr. Carsten Momsen, Free University of Berlin; Prof. Dr. Johannes Kaspar, University of Augsburg)

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• Basics

• Empirical findings on wrongful convictions and readmission

• Request for reinstatement

• Reinstatement in favor of the convicted person

• Retrial in favor of the accused

• Procedural issues

• Reform perspectives​

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Lecture: Misjudgments in criminal proceedings(Prof. Dr. Stephen Barton, University of Bielefeld)

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• Causal research (criminalistics: witnesses/confessions, forensic technology, experts)

• Prevention (opportunities for defense in criminal proceedings)

• Correction (revision/retrial, retrial in practice)

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Sources of error in criminal proceedings from a psychological perspective (Prof. Dr. Renate Volbert and MSc otzipka, Psychological University of Berlin)

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• Judgment on the credibility of witness statements

• False Confessions

• Judgmental distortions

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Introduction to criminalistics (Prof. Dr. Stephen Harrendorf, University of Greifswald)

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Criminology (Prof. Dr. Stephen Harrendorf, University of Greifswald)

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• Cognitive and socio-psychological effects that can contribute to wrongful convictions in criminal proceedings

• Phenomenology and causes of such offenses that play an important role in retrial (esp. sexual and violent crime)

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Misjudgment and execution of sentences (Prof. Dr. Kirstin Drenkhahn, Free University of Berlin; Prof. Dr. Christine Graebsch, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences)

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Exercise: Introduction to Judgment and File Analysis (Attorney Dr. Caroline Arnemann, Munich)

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