Franz Streng

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Franz Streng (born February 1, 1947 in Scheinfeld ) is a German law scholar and university professor specializing in criminal law , juvenile criminal law and criminology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Live and act

Franz Streng was born in Scheinfeld / Middle Franconia. After studying law from 1967 to 1969 at the University of Würzburg , 1969 at the Free University of Berlin and 1969 to 1971 at the University of Heidelberg , he passed the first and second state examinations in Baden-Württemberg. Streng received his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Heidelberg under Heinz Leferenz (subject: The psychoanalytic theories of sexual crime ), the habilitation took place there in 1983 ( Hans-Jürgen Kerner ).

From 1975 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Criminology and from 1985 Professor for Criminology and Juvenile Criminal Law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In 1987 he accepted a position at the University of Konstanz . Franz Streng has been professor for criminal law and criminology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1991 .

Scientific focus

  • General part of criminal law: sanctions and sentencing law, guilt theory (including forensic assessment), fallacy, grounds for justification, attempt and withdrawal from the attempt
  • Special part of criminal law: property offenses, honor offenses, sedition and intoxication criminality
  • Juvenile criminal law: Sanctions law (especially juvenile punishment), criminal responsibility and the idea of ​​bringing up children
  • Criminology: empirical research on sanctions, perception of crime by the population, victimology, violent crime and the history of criminology

Awards

  • 2010: Awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Volunteering

Streng has been a liaison professor at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung since 1989 and a member of the selection committee for student funding since 1994. Since 1991 he has been a member of the executive committee of the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Court Assistance and as the first chairman of the DVJJ regional group in Northern Bavaria.

Franz Streng has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Criminological Service of the Bavarian Prison System since 2010.

Writings (selection): monographs

  • Penal mentality and legal training - an investigation of the attitudes of young lawyers to crime and punishment Kriminalistik Verlag: Heidelberg 1979
  • Sentencing and Relative Justice - An Inquiry into Legal, Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Unequal Sentencing , Heidelberg 1984
  • Penal sanctions - basics and application , Kohlhammer Verlag: Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln 1991
  • The “broken windows” paradigm - criminological remarks on a new prevention approach (Erlanger University Speeches No. 57/1999), Erlangen 1999
  • Criminal law sanctions - the determination of punishment and its basics , Kohlhammer Verlag: Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln, 2nd edition. 2002
  • Conflict of Legal Cultures? - The USA and Germany in comparison / American and German Legal Cultures - Contrast, Conflict, Convergence? (with Knud Krakau) University Press Winter: Heidelberg 2003
  • Juvenile Criminal Law , CF Müller: Heidelberg, 2003; 2nd edition 2008
  • Criminal Justice in the United States and Germany / Criminal Law in the United States and Germany (with Manfred Berg and Stefan J. Kapsch) Universitätsverlag Winter: Heidelberg 2006

In addition, Franz Streng published some comments, decision notes, reviews and conference reports as well as over 100 essays.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of juvenile criminal law
personal data
SURNAME Strictly, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheinfeld