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The
epistemic
turn
-
around
operated
by
the
Constitutional
Court
in
May
2011
,
which
aligned
itself
with
the
Therapy
Placement
Act
’s
strategic
political
choice
to
avoid
direct
confrontation
with
Strasbourg
,
was
crowned
by
the
new
Article
66c
in
the
Criminal
Code
introduced
by
the
2012
Preventive
Detention
(
Distinction
)
Act
.
In
fact
,
the
German
parliamentarians
engaged
first
in
a
policy
of
“
transubstantiating
”
preventive
detention
into
a
non
-
criminal
law
,
a
non
-
punitive
measure
of
therapy
placement
in
order
to
safeguard
its
autonomy
from
imprisonment
and
above
all
its
retrospective
applicability
.
Subsequently
,
in
its
judgment
of
4
May
2011
,
the
Constitutional
Court
based
the
further
confinement
of
those
who
were
subjected
to
retrospective
preventive
detention
on
the
conditions
set
out
in
the
Therapy
Placement
Act
.
In
practice
,
this
resulted
in
their
continued
detention
,
but
not
in
their
placement
in
therapy
,
which
would
have
to
be
ordered
by
a
civil
court
and
in
accordance
with
civil
law
.
Furthermore
,
the
Constitutional
Court
referred
to
a
new
law
(
the
Therapy
Placement
Act
)
for
the
justification
of
the
continuance
of
preventive
detention
,
including
detainees
under
the
juvenile
law,[112
]
for
which
it
had
acknowledged
a
violation
of
the
principle
of
legitimate
expectation
(
albeit
not
of
the
prohibition
of
retrospective
legislation
)
in
the
very
same
judgment
.
In
so
doing
,
the
Constitutional
Court
’s
judgment
produced
a
retrospective
cure
of
preventive
detention
even
though
it
explicitly
resulted
from
a
new
perception
of
Sicherungsverwahrte
as
people
of
“
unsound
mind
”
and
a
seemingly
ex
nunc
perspective
on
their
dangerousness
and
the
necessity
of
their
future
treatment
.
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