Tobias Singelnstein

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Tobias Singelnstein (* 1977 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar and criminologist . He is Professor of Criminology at the Law Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum . Among other things, he deals with police violence .

Life

Tobias Singelnstein studied law from 1998 at the Free University of Berlin with the electives of criminology , juvenile criminal law and penal execution . In 2003 he passed the first state examination .

From August 2003 to February 2008 he worked as a research assistant at Ulrich Eisenberg's chair at the Free University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in law in June 2008 . In 2009 he passed the second state examination in Berlin.

After working for the Hans Böckler Foundation in 2010, he returned to the Free University of Berlin in August 2010, where he held a junior professorship from April 2011 to February 2017 . In 2016 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the subject of “criminal prosecution”. The work was supervised by Klaus Hoffmann-Holland .

After rejecting two appointments at the Universities of Passau and Bielefeld , he finally accepted an appointment at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he has held the Chair of Criminology at the Faculty of Law since 2017.

Research topics

Tobias Singelnstein's research focuses on the general part of German criminal law , official offenses , commercial criminal law and, in criminal procedure law , investigative measures and the law of evidence and informational self-determination . In criminology , his main areas of focus are social control and its change, research into legal facts on criminal proceedings, economic criminology and legal theory , especially the fundamentals of criminal law .

In the book Die Sicherheitsgesellschaft , which was published in 2006 and has been reissued several times since then , Singelnstein and his co-author, the lawyer Peer Stolle, describe various topics from the current political discussion such as data retention , video surveillance , various anti-terrorist measures and changes in prison regulations as an expression of a fundamental one Change in social control.

In his dissertation Discurs and Criminality , published in 2009 as a book, Singelnstein investigates the interactions between the zeitgeist and the application of the law and examines the criminalization process using the means of discourse analysis according to Michel Foucault .

Since the 7th edition, Singelnstein has been a co-author of the introductory work Kriminologie, which until then was written by Karl-Ludwig Kunz alone .

Honors, awards, grants, memberships

The Hans Böckler Foundation supported Singelnstein with several grants, specifically a study grant (April 2000 to July 2003), a doctoral grant (January 2005 to June 2008) and a postdoctoral grant from June 2009 to May 2010.

Singelnstein is co-editor of the journal Neue Kriminalpolitik published by Nomos Verlag as well as the series of publications Studies on Crime - Law - Psyche from Lit Verlag .

Works

Singelnstein is the author of four monographic books and numerous journal articles as well as the editor of several scientific compilations.

Monographs

  1. ↑ Criminal prosecution: Prerequisites and limits of criminal liability of public officials as well as of criminal procedural authority according to the principle of procedural law accessory . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-3440-5 (633 pages, also habilitation thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2016).
  2. ↑ The security society . Social Control in the 21st Century . 3rd, completely revised edition. VS-Verl, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17531-7 (together with Peer Stolle).
  3. ^ Discourse and crime. Extraordinary rules of application as discursive practices in the interrelation between criminalization discourses and the application of criminal law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-12997-3 (227 pages).
  4. ^ Karl-Ludwig Kunz , Tobias Singelnstein: Criminology. A foundation (=  UTB . Volume  1758 ). 7th, fundamentally revised edition. Haupt, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4683-9 (435 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Kastner: Violence during operations. Why reports against police officers rarely lead to charges. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 15, 2012, accessed on September 13, 2015 (interview with Tobias Singelnstein).
  2. ↑ Criminology - Prof. Dr. Singelnstein. Faculty of Law, Ruhr University Bochum , accessed on June 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Singelnstein - CV. Faculty of Law, Ruhr University Bochum , accessed on June 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein. Faculty of Law, Free University of Berlin , archived from the original on October 11, 2015 ; accessed on June 5, 2017 (personal data, curriculum vitae, research areas, list of publications).
  5. ^ Journal of New Criminal Policy - Editors Group. Nomos Verlag , accessed on September 14, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Studies on crime - law - psyche. Lit-Verlag , accessed on September 14, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Singelnstein Publications. Faculty of Law, Ruhr University Bochum , accessed on August 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Singelnstein, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin