[Comparative aspects of penal sanctions]

A conference on comparative aspects of criminal sanctions has been held at the Aspen Institute, Berlin, on February 2 to 6, 1976, assembling experts from Europe and from the United States, The focus has been on guidelines for prevention of crime and treatment of offenders, with a view to examine differences and convergences among various national criminal justice systems. Specific tropics under discussion have been: the goals of dention, alternatives to detention, sentencing and releasethe conditions of detention, the future of research in the field. Priority areas for further study were considered to be: prevention of crime, arrest and sentencing procedures, grievances procedures, the dangerous offender, protection of victims, of jurors and of witnesses, treatment of juveniles, information of the public.