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Arthur Kreuzer (born September 26, 1938 in Hamburg ) is a German legal scholar and criminologist .

Life

He studied law with Anne-Eva Brauneck in Hamburg , among others . After studying law, Kreuzer worked as a judge at the regional court and at the same time as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg . In 1975 he completed his habilitation in criminology and criminal law and in the same year he took over the chair for criminology in Hamburg. Since 1976 he has been a professor at the University of Giessen , and since 2006 as emeritus . Britta Bannenberg is his successor to the chair .

Kreuzer was one of the first criminological drug researchers in Germany, especially from 1972 to 1975 he devoted himself to this field of research.

Today he is chairman of the registered association Criminalium , whose task it is to bring the nature, meaning and history of criminal law culture closer to the public .

In 2004, Kreuzer was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bundesverdienstkreuz ). In 2005 he was awarded the Beccaria Gold Medal by the New Criminological Society . His daughter Gundula Kreuzer works as a musicologist in the USA.

Fonts (selection)

  • Drugs and delinquency - a youth criminological-empirical investigation of the manifestations and connections , Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1975 (also habilitation thesis), ISBN 3-400-00293-3
  • Youth - Drugs - Crime , 3rd, completely revised. Ed., Neuwied; Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1987, ISBN 3-472-52518-5 (1st edition as youth, intoxicating drugs, criminality , 1978)
  • Old people as perpetrators and victims. Age criminology and humane criminal policy against old people (Ed. With Michael Hürlimann), Freiburg im Breisgau: Lambertus, 1992, ISBN 3-7841-0577-7
  • Handbook of Narcotics Criminal Law (Ed. With Hans-Jörg Albrecht ), Munich: Beck, 1998, ISBN 3-406-40688-2 .

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SURNAME Cruiser, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg