Polizeistrafrecht, or “police(y) criminal law,” or the “law of police(y) contraventions,” is defined as the sphere of governmental or state sanctions that until well into the 19th century was intended to assure adherence in Europe to the provisions of the political order known in the German tradition as gute Policey (Police [political order]). Polizeistrafrecht depended in institutional terms on the fact that, from the late 17th century onwards, the policing autho…