Frank Urbaniok

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Frank Wolfgang Johannes Urbaniok (born October 16, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German - Swiss forensic psychiatrist . From 1997 to 2018 he was chief physician of the Psychiatric-Psychological Service of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Life

Frank Urbaniok grew up in a working-class family, studied medicine first in Münster , then in Düsseldorf and graduated in 1989 with the state examination. He was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . From 1989 to 1995 he worked at the Rheinische Landesklinik Langenfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1990 he received his doctorate in Münster, and in 1993 he obtained a specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy . From 1992 to 1995 he was involved in setting up a model station for the treatment of sex offenders with disordered personality (Langenfeld model) and coined the term “crime-oriented work”. In 1995 he moved to Zurich , where in 1997 he became chief physician of the Psychiatric-Psychological Service (PPD) in the prison department of the Canton of Zurich. In 2007 he was at the University of Zurich habilitation . In October 2010 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Konstanz .

Urbaniok works as a psychotherapist , assessor and supervisor , his work focuses on sexual and violent crimes . With the FOTRES (Forensically Operationalized Therapy and Risk Evaluation System) he developed his own instrument for risk assessments in criminals, which is now used in various countries.

Urbaniok has a say, especially in the Swiss media. Among other things, he advocates greater consideration of preventive aspects in case law and, in this context, advocated the legal anchoring of a prevention principle. In the public perception, he is on the one hand referred to as a hardliner , who wants to see offenders kept for life even after they have already served their prison sentence. On the other hand, he has been repeatedly accused, especially by representatives of the national-conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP), that his work focuses on the perpetrators and not the victims.

In February 2012, an article in the newspaper Der Sonntag reported that Urbaniok was making annual profits of around 35,000 francs through its own company, which among other things sold the forecasting tool FOTRES that he developed. In this context, he was accused of the fact that his work as chief physician of the PPD Zurich could be influenced by this entrepreneurial activity and that this could also endanger his independence. The Department of Justice of the Canton of Zurich stated that Urbaniok's secondary activities are harmless as long as they are transparent.

Due to his pancreatic cancer , Urbaniok withdrew from the public in 2016 and resigned from his position as chief physician of the Psychiatric-Psychological Service of the Canton of Zurich at the end of July 2018, after 21 years. Today he works on a smaller scale as an independent expert and supervisor.

Urbaniok is a German-Swiss citizen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Age-specific risk of abortion. Dissertation , University of Münster, 1990.
  • (with Philipp Maier) The arrangement and practical implementation of prison sentences and measures: With treatment concepts for adult offenders according to the Swiss penal code. Schulthess, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7255-3771-2 .
  • Team-oriented inpatient treatment in psychiatry. Thieme, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-13-125211-1 .
  • What kind of people are they - what can we do: Think about criminals. Zytglogge, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-7296-0665-4 .
  • Team-oriented inpatient treatment and crime-oriented work as the basis of a treatment concept in forensic psychiatry. In: Thomas Bender, Thomas Auchter (eds.): Destructive delusion between psychiatry and politics: Forensic, psychoanalytic and social psychological investigations. Psychosozial, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-89806-352-6 , pp. 171-199.
  • FOTRES: Forensic Operationalized Therapy Risk Evaluation System. Zytglogge, Oberhofen am Thunersee 2004; 2nd, completely revised and updated edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-7296-0697-5 .
  • Risk calculations for violent and sexual offenders. Habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 2007 (five reprints of journal articles).
  • ed. with Jérôme Endrass, Astrid Rossegger, Bernd Borchard: Interventions with violent and sexual offenders. Risk management, methods and concepts of forensic therapy. MWV , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941468-70-2 .
  • Darwin beats Kant - On the weaknesses of human reason and their fatal consequences. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-280-05722-3 .

documentation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthe Homann, Daniel Benz: "Victims have a right to information." Interview in: Schweizerischer Beobachter 1/2013 from January 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Frank Urbaniok, Prof Dr. med. Portrait on ri-sk.org (archive version)
  3. ↑ On the Dies academicus, the University of Konstanz awards two honorary doctorates and an honorary professorship. ( Memento of March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Press release no.130 of October 15, 2010.
  4. ↑ Franziska K. Müller: There can seldom be talk of healing. Interview in Emma , summer 2011 edition.
  5. ↑ Susan Boos : Referees Become Prophets. In: Die Wochenzeitung , 2/2004 (no longer available online)
  6. ↑ SVP of the Canton of Zurich  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.svp-zuerich.ch
  7. ↑ Sandro Brotz , Beat Kraushaar: The mailbox company of the star psychiatrist. In: The Sunday of February 5, 2012.
  8. ↑ Thomas Hasler, Stefan Hohler: Frank Urbaniok in the crosshairs. In: Tages-Anzeiger from October 15, 2012.
  9. ↑ Due to serious illness: Forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok resigns. In: SRF of July 30, 2018
  10. ↑ Simon Christians: Expert appraisers of evil - the forensic scientist Frank Urbaniok. In: SRF from September 12, 2019.
  11. ^ "Schawinski" broadcast. Roger Schawinski in conversation with Frank Urbaniok. Video in: Swiss television from January 14, 2013 ( online, 29 minutes )

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personal data
SURNAME Urbaniok, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urbaniok, Frank Wolfgang Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss forensic psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne