Dieter Rössner

Dieter Rössner (born August 25, 1945 in Gotha , Thuringia ) is a German legal scholar and criminologist .

Life

After attending grammar school in Backnang and the Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire ( Great Britain ), Rössner did his military service ( Lieutenant d. R.). From 1969 he studied law at the University of Tübingen . After the first state examination in law, he was an assistant at the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen in 1972/73. And after his legal clerkship and the second state examination ( summa cum laude ), he worked from 1976 as a judge at the Tübingen regional court and public prosecutor in Baden-Württemberg , and was also a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. In 1985 Rössner completed his habilitation in the subjects of criminal law , criminal procedural law and criminology . From 1988 to 1993 he was professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , from 1993 to 1997 professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and from 2001 to 2010 professor for criminal law, criminal procedural law and criminology at the Philipps University of Marburg . Until his retirement in 2010 he was also director of the Institute for Criminal Sciences in Marburg.

Special focus areas are empirical criminology and empirically oriented crime prevention as well as social norm learning. In addition, the perpetrator-victim balance , causes and prevention of violence , personality assessments and psychiatric assessment, each with large research projects (Halle violence study and Halle accused study). Another focus is sports law within the framework of the research center for sports law in Marburg-Gießen, which he co-founded .

Web links

• Personal homepage at the University of Marburg with a detailed list of publications (also source)
• Literature by and about Dieter Rössner in the catalog of the German National Library