»The Particular Public Interest in Prosecuting Limited Application Offenses« The thesis deals with the particular public interest in prosecuting limited application offenses. In addition to controversial formal questions such as those of the process requirements and judici-al verifiability, the primary concern is to examine the content-related meaning. For this purpose, the relationship to the public interest is examined and an independent approach to the defi-nition of the term is developed, focusing the interpretation on the criminal complaint.