»Shame Sanctions - (il)legitimate form of punishment? Overview and Analysis«: The thesis deals with the question of the legitimacy of shame sanctions, a form of sanctions that has been imposed in the USA since the 1980s. The thesis assumes an intuitive rejection of shame sanctions. The author elaborates potential reasons for the emergence of shame sanctions, analyzes the current constitutional and penal theoretical discussion, and, on this basis, presents her own justification for the intuitive rejection