Johannes Feest

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Johannes Feest (born November 21, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German criminologist and legal sociologist . From 1974 until his transfer to the retirement in 2005 he was professor of law enforcement , correctional and criminal justice at the University of Bremen .

Life

Scientific career

Johannes Feest studied law in Vienna and Munich as well as sociology in Tübingen and at the University of California, Berkeley . Influenced by the American criminal sociology , he wrote the book The Definitive Power of the Police together with Erhard Blankenburg in 1972 . Law enforcement strategies and social selection , which are counted among the key works of critical criminology because for the first time in Germany police work was analyzed in the light of the labeling approach .

From 1974 until his transfer to the retirement in 2005 Feest was professor of law enforcement , correctional and criminal justice at the University of Bremen . His research interests included the law and the reality of prisons. From 1995 to 1997 he headed the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Basque . In retirement, he is increasingly concerned with issues relating to the prison system and preventive detention.

From 1977 until his move to the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences in 2011, he was in charge of the penal archive . Since 2009 he has been a member of the jury of the Ingeborg-Drewitz Literature Prize for Prisoners. From 2011 to 2014 he was chairman of the advisory board of the Institute for Legal and Criminal Sociology in Vienna. He is a member of the advisory board of the Kriminologische Journal (KrimJ) ., As well as a member of the Schildower Kreis , which advocates the legalization of drugs . In 2001 he founded the reading theater "Literarisches Quartier" (LitQ) in Bremen together with Barbara Alms , Inge Buck and Peter Derleder . He is a member of the Humanist Union. The Johannes Feest Prize of the “European Conferences on Health Promotion in Prison” was named after him and is intended to honor people, initiatives and institutions who “have made a significant contribution to improving the health care of prisoners”.

He is the author of taz , the young world and for Radio Bremen .

family

Feest is married to the lawyer Christa Feest. The ethnologist Christian Feest and the artist Gerhard Gleich are his brothers.

Publications (selection)

  • (1972) The power of definition of the police. Law enforcement strategies and social selection (with Erhard Blankenburg ). Düsseldorf: Bertelmann University Press.
  • (1985) Emil Sonnemann 1869–1950. A chronicle . Bremen: Central printing company of the university 1985.
  • (1997) Total Institution and Legal Protection. An investigation into legal protection in prison (with Wolfgang Lesting and Peter Selling). Opladen: West German publishing house.
  • (2001) Adapting Legal Cultures (Ed., With David Nelken ). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • (2009) Contempt of Court. On the return of the subject of the recalcitrant prison authorities (with Wolfgang Lesting). In: Festschrift for Ulrich Eisenberg on his 70th birthday, Munich: CH Beck, pp. 675–690.
  • (2015) Abolition in the times of pre-crime . In: Thomas Mathiesen: The Politics of Abolition Revisited. New York: Routledge, 263-272.
  • (2017) Prison Acts. Commentary (Ed., With Wolfgang Lesting and Michael Lindemann), 7th edition of the AK StVollzG, Heymanns Verlag: Cologne.
  • (2019) Manifesto for the Abolition of Prisons and Prisons.
  • (2020) Power of definition, restlessness, abolitionism. Texts about the prison archive . Springer Wiesbaden.

Festschrift

  • Sven-U.Burkhardt, Christine Graebsch, Helmut Pollähne (eds.): Correspondence. In terms of: prison system, legal cultures, criminal policy, human rights . Münster: LIT Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8658-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rafael Behr , Feest, Johannes / Blankenburg, Erhard (1972): The power of definition of the police. Law enforcement strategies and social selection (with Erhard Blankenburg). Düsseldorf: Bertelmann University Press. In: Christina Schlepper / Jan Wehrheim (ed.): Key Works of Critical Criminology , Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3484-4 , pp. 167-174.
  2. ↑ Brief CV of Johannes Feest , University of Bremen, accessed on November 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Set or not? , taz June 20, 2013
  4. ^ Jean-Philipp Baeck: Fund for critical lawyers. At the University of Bremen, the last projects that corresponded to the reform-oriented entrepreneurial spirit are also disappearing. At the end of 2011, the prison archive will go to : the daily newspaper , November 1, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ Kriminologisches Journal, Advisory Board, see legal notice , accessed on November 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ Information about the individuals active in the Schildower Kreis. Schildower Kreis , accessed December 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sven-U.Burkhardt, Christine Graebsch, Helmut Pollähne (ed.): Correspondences. In terms of: prison system, legal cultures, criminal policy, human rights . LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, p. 289.
  8. ↑ Klaus Jünschke : Exclusion and Penal Execution , in: Jens Puschke (Ed.), Penal Execution in Germany. Structural deficits, need for reform and alternatives, Berlin 2011, pp. 63-74, here: p. 64.
  9. ↑ See: 7th European Conference on Health Promotion in Prison “Giving Life to Years”, Gustav Stresemann Institute, Bonn, March 13 and 14, 2014, [1] .
  10. ↑ https://strafvollzugarchiv.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Abolitionismus-Manifest.pdf
  11. ↑ Maik Großekathöfer, DER SPIEGEL: This criminologist wants to abolish prison sentences - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Feest, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal scientist and legal sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin