Open AccessGesicherte Freiheit?
Author(s) -
Alexander D. Klose,
Hubert Rottleuthner
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v38i152.460
Subject(s) - legislation , communism , politics , political science , law , law and economics , sociology
This article presents a chronological overview of security legislation in (West)Germany, starting with anti-communist measures in the 1950s and 1960s, analyzing laws against "radicals", the RAF, and against organized crime, ending with "security-packages" after 9/11. Finally, the bulk of security legislation is criticized from a political as well as a legal-sociological point of view.