German Criminological Society
The German Criminological Society (DKG) was a scientific association of criminologists that was founded in 1959 as an alternative to the Criminal Biological Society and dissolved in 1989 into the New Criminological Society , which then became the Criminological Society (KrimG) in 2007 .
Turning away from psychiatric dominance
The founding initiative came from the Mainz criminologist Armand Mergen , who also acted as president of the society from 1959 to 1984. The eight founding members also included Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno and Fritz Bauer .
The company's statutory task was "the empirical, natural and social scientific research into crime and criminal people, the commission of crimes, the investigation and fight against crime, and the social defense against crime". This corresponded to a departure from post-war criminology, which was dominated by psychiatry, and also included a criminalistic task.
Activities of society
The DKG held three one-day conferences each year, the results of which were published in the series of criminological publications it edited . Since 1964, the society has awarded the Beccaria medals for special services to the subject. This tradition is continued by the Criminological Society .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Baer, Ten Years of the German Criminological Society , in: Current Criminology. On the tenth anniversary of the German Criminological Society and the 50th birthday of its President Prof. Dr. Dr. Armand Mergen , Hamburg: Kriminalistik-Verlag, 1969, pp. XIII - XXVIII, here XIV.
- ↑ See: Criminological Societies (D, EU, worldwide) in KrimLEX