Dietrich Oberwittler

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Dietrich Oberwittler (born November 28, 1963 in Essen ) is a German sociologist and criminologist . He is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Research into Crime, Security and Law and an adjunct professor at the University of Freiburg . In particular, he researches the importance of urban social spaces for crime and perceptions of insecurity.

Career

Oberwittler studied social sciences and history at the Universities of Münster , Bonn and University College London after completing his Abitur at the Schillergymnasium Münster and civil service . In 1997 he joined the Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg. In 1998 he received his doctorate from the University of Trier . In his dissertation he compared the development of the treatment of juvenile offenders in Germany and England between 1850 and 1920. From 1999 he also taught sociology at the University of Freiburg. From 2004 to 2006 Oberwittler was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Criminology at the University of Cambridge . In 2006 he returned to the Max Planck Institute as a Senior Researcher. He completed his habilitation in 2006 at the University of Bielefeld in the subject of sociology with the thesis “Deviant behavior and socio-spatial context”. Since 2019, Oberwittler has headed the independent research group Space, Contexts, and Crime at the Max Planck Institute.

Research priorities

Oberwittler's main research areas are: juvenile delinquency , violent crime , criminal geography , especially socio-spatial context effects on crime and perceptions of uncertainty, police sociology and methods of quantitative social research . He has led several empirical, partly international comparative research projects in these fields with funding from the German Research Foundation .

The "MPI School Survey 1999", which was carried out in Cologne and Freiburg, showed for the first time in Germany the delinquency-promoting influence of growing up in socially disadvantaged city districts. In cooperation with the Federal Criminal Police Office , he carried out the first comprehensive study on honor killings in Germany from 2008 to 2010 and was involved in the evaluations of the German victimization surveys in 2012 and 2017.

Internationally, Oberwittler collaborated on the longitudinal study “Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study” led by Per-Olof Wikström ( University of Cambridge ) and led the Franco-German research project “Police and Adolescents in Multi-Ethnic” together with Sebastian Roché ( University of Grenoble ) Societies ”, which showed strong country differences in the treatment of migrant youth by the police.

Oberwittler was a member of the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Criminology from 2004 to 2012 and has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (Amsterdam) since 2015.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Wikström, P.-OH, Oberwittler, D., Driver, K., Hardie, B. (2012). Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-163410-9 .
  • Oberwittler, D. & Kasselt, J (2011). Honor killings in Germany 1996–2005. An investigation based on case files . Luchterhand, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-472-08045-9 .
  • Oberwittler, D. & Gerstner, D. (2011). Criminal geography of Baden-Württemberg (2003–2007). Socio-economic and spatial determinants of recorded crime . Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-86113-111-3 .
  • Oberwitter, D. (2000). From punishment to education? Youth crime policy in England and Germany (1850–1920) . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-593-36463-6 (also dissertation, University of Trier, 1998).

Editorships

  • Oberwittler, D. & Roché, S. (2018). Police-Citizen Relations around the World. Comparing Sources and Contexts of Trust and Legitimacy. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-22286-1 .
  • Birkel, C., Hummelsheim-Doss, D., Leitgöb-Guzy, N. & Oberwittler, D. (2016). Victim experiences and crime-related attitudes in Germany. In-depth analyzes of the German Victimization Survey 2012 with special consideration of the spatial context . Wiesbaden: Federal Criminal Police Office. ISBN 978-3-9818469-0-4 .
  • Oberwittler, D., Rabold, S. & Baier, D .: Urban poor neighborhoods - criminal worlds? Studies on the socio-spatial context effects on juvenile delinquency and criminal perceptions . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-16976-7 .
  • Oberwittler, D. & Karstedt, S .: Sociology of criminality . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-531-14059-9 .

Journal articles

  • Janssen, HJ, Oberwittler, D., & Koeber, G. (2020). Victimization and Its Consequences for Well-Being: A Between- and Within-Person Analysis . Journal of Quantitative Criminology. doi: 10.1007 / s10940-019-09445-6. ''
  • Hummelsheim, D., Hirtenlehner, H., Jackson, J. & Oberwittler, D. (2011). Social Insecurities and Fear of Crime: A Cross-National Study on the Impact of Welfare State Policies on Crime-Related Anxieties. European Sociological Review 27 (3), pp. 327-345.
  • Oberwittler, D. (2004) : A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Contextual Effects on Serious Juvenile Offending: The Role of Subcultural Values ​​and Social Disorganization. European Journal of Criminology 1 (2), pp. 201-235.

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Oberwittler, D. (2019). Lethal violence: A global view on homicide. In Henry Pontell (Ed.): Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice . New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093 / acrefore / 9780190264079.013.402.
  • Oberwittler, D. (2018). Urban structure and crime. In: Dieter Hermann , Andreas Pöge (Hrsg.): Kriminalsoziologie. Manual for science and practice . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-2806-0 , pp. 317–336.
  • Oberwittler, D. (2018). Juvenile delinquency in social contexts. On the role of residential areas and schools in reinforcing deviant behavior among adolescents. In: Bernd Dollinger and Henning Schmidt-Semisch (Hrsg.): Handbook of juvenile crime. Interdisciplinary perspectives . 3rd edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-531-19952-8 , pp. 297-316.
  • Oberwittler, D. & Kasselt, J. (2014). Honor Killings. In: Rosemary Gartner & Billl McCarthy (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex, and Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-983870-7 , pp. 652-670.
  • Oberwittler, D. (2012). Crime and delinquency as a social problem. In Günter Albrecht & Axel Grönemeyer (eds.). Handbook of Social Problems (2nd edition). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-531-32117-2 , pp. 772-860.
  • Oberwittler, D. (2004). City structure, groups of friends and delinquency. A multi-level analysis of socio-ecological context effects on serious juvenile delinquency In: Dietrich Oberwittler & Susanne Karstedt (eds.), Sociology of Criminality. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-531-14059-9 , pp. 135–170.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Max Planck Institute for Research into Crime, Security and Law, Prof. Dr. phil. Dietrich Oberwittler, research group leader, career
  2. Independent research group Space, Contexts, and Crime at the Max Planck Institute for research into crime, security and law.
  3. ^ Dietrich Oberwittler, German Prevention Day
  4. ^ Project: Violence and juvenile delinquency in a socio-ecological context. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  5. Johannes Korge, DER SPIEGEL: BKA investigation: Police analyze dozen "honor killings" cases - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  6. ^ BKA - Homepage - The German Victimization Survey 2012. Fear of crime in Germany. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Developmental Study (PADS +). Design Overview - Center for Analytic Criminology. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  8. ^ Police and multi-ethnic youth. What the police do well and can do even better. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  9. ^ Scientific Advisory Committee. In: NSCR. Retrieved April 6, 2020 (American English).