Website of the Max Plank Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law) which is part of the Max Planck Society, a German research organisation. The Institute's research interests cover criminal law, criminology and public law. The site has information about the Institute including yearly activity reports, a list of publications and working papers available to download via SSRN. There is an Information System for Comparative Criminal Law which provides reports outlining the criminal law systems of 25 jurisdictions. There is also a database of literature on German criminal law. Content can be searched by subject, author, title and publication type with some of the publications freely available to download.