Die Nebenklage im Lichte spätmoderner Herausforderungen

»The German >Nebenklage< in the Light of Late Modern Societal Challenges. A Suggestion for a Rearrangement«: As a result of a fundamental change in social expectations with regard to the question how to deal with victims of crime on the one hand and a continuing threat to a criminal procedure code governed by the rule of law due to increasing populism on the other, the participation of the victim in the German criminal procedure code (Strafprozessordnung) needs to be restructured. By creating new procedural roles for the victim, both, psychological needs and constitutional requirements can be balanced in a better way.