Aldo Legnaro

Aldo Legnaro (* 1947 ) is a German social scientist . He researches and publishes in particular in the context of critical criminology and social science drug and addiction research .

Legnaro studied sociology and social psychology at the University of Cologne and at the University of Berlin and in 1975 at René King Dr. rer. pole. PhD . The title of his dissertation was: "Drugs and Socio-Cultural Change". Since then he has worked as a freelance social scientist, he is an employee of the Hamburg Institute for Security and Prevention Research (ISIP), of which he was managing director from 1997 to 2002.

His main areas of work are: sociology of deviation and conformity; Social history of drugs; Legal sociology ; Sociology of the Control Society. In addition to the question of gender-specific sentencing for homicides, his legal sociological work deals with an ethnomethodological representation of criminal proceedings as theater. In his work on the social history of (legal and illegal) drugs in Europe, he interprets attitudes towards drugs against the background of Norbert Elias' theory of civilization ; in later works he analyzes drug policy as an example of a control society in the sense of Gilles Deleuze . Together with his project team, he devoted three books to the forms of control society as part of a trilogy that deal with pleasure, money and work as central social control mechanisms.

Fonts (selection)

• with Irmgard Rode: Psychiatric experts in criminal proceedings. Subjective aspects of the assessment. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38744-6 .
• Alcohol Consumption and Behavior Control - Changes in Meaning between the Middle Ages and Modern Times in Europe. In: Gisela Völger (Ed.): Intoxication and Reality - Drugs in a Cultural Comparison. Handbook of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde for the exhibition of the same name. Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-923158-00-9 , pp. 153-175.
• Approaches to a sociology of intoxication - the social history of intoxication and ecstasy in Europe. In: Gisela Völger (Ed.): Intoxication and Reality - Drugs in a Cultural Comparison. Handbook of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde for the exhibition of the same name. Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-923158-00-9 , pp. 93-114. (Also as paperback edition: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-34006-2 )
• with Astrid Aengenheister: Guilt and punishment. The gender of the accused and the sentencing of homicides. Centaurus-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler 1999, ISBN 3-8255-0224-4 .
• with Astrid Aengenheister: The performance of criminal law - small ethnography of judicial negotiations. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6140-9 .
• with Almut Birenheide: sites of the late modern era. Travel guides through train stations, shopping malls, Disneyland Paris. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8100-3725-7 .
• with Almut Birenheide and Michael Fischer: Capitalism for everyone. Shares, freedom and control. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89691-616-5 .
• with Almut Birenheide: Governing through uncertainty. Regime of Work in the Late Modern Age. UVK-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-86764-105-0 .
• with Daniela Klimke (Ed.), Kriminologische Grundlagentexte , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-06503-4 .

Web links

• Aldo Legnaro at the Institute for Security and Prevention Research (ISIP) with a list of the latest publications