Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff

Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff (born February 15, 1939 in Iserlohn ) is a German lawyer and professor of victimology .

Life

Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff doctorate at Anne Eva Brauneck 1974 at the University of Giessen Dr. jur. A year earlier he had taken on a professorship for criminal law, criminology and victimology at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences . Later he was dean of the social affairs department there. Kirchhoff is one of the founding members of the World Society of Victimology e. V. and has been a member of its executive committee since 1985. He was also active as President (2000–2003), Secretary General (1988–2000 and 2009–2012) and Treasurer (since 2012). After his retirement in Germany, he taught as Professor of Victimology at Tokiwa University, Mito , Japan from 2003 to 2016 . Since 2016 he has been teaching as a professor at OP Jindal Global University, Jagdishpur, India.

In addition, he is u. a. Co-founder and co-director of the postgraduate course Victimology, Victim Assistance and Criminal Justice at the Inter University Center in Dubrovnik and honorary member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Criminologia Capitulo Nuevo Leon AC and the Victimoloskij Drustvo Serbije . As an international expert in victimology, Kirchhoff has given lectures in over 25 countries around the world and published a significant part of his publications in English.

He is one of the signatories of the Mainz Declaration on Juvenile Criminal Law initiated by Michael Bock . Instead of tightening up existing laws, this calls for the improvement of training and cooperation between institutions and people who deal with juvenile offenders.

Publications (selection)

• Beck's Risk Society - a challenge for traditional victimology? In: Klaus Boers, Thomas Feltes, Jörg Kinzig, Lawrence W. Sherman, Franz Streng, Gerson Trüg (eds.): Kriminologie - Kriminalpolitik - Strafrecht. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Kerner on his 70th birthday. Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-152216-1 .
• with Paul C. Friday: Social Control Theory. In: Hans-Dieter Schwind, Edwin Kube, Hans-Heiner Kühne (eds.): Festschrift for Hans Joachim Schneider on his 70th birthday on November 14, 1998, criminology on the threshold of the 21st century. Verlag Walter De Gruyter, Berlin / Ney York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015002-6 .
• Old people as victims of crime. In: Competence in old age between routine and new beginnings. 1995, pp. 31-60.
• Diversion in juvenile criminal law: the INTEG STOP program after two years. In: Helmut Kury: Criminological research in discussion: reports, standpoints, analyzes. Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 1985, pp. 341-369.
• with Klaus Sessar (ed.): Das Verbrechensopfer. A victimology reader. Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1979, ISBN 3-88339-071-2 .
• Victimological Highlights in 1976 in the United States. In: Monthly for criminology and criminal law reform. 60 (1977), Verlag Heymanns, Cologne, pp. 313-321.
• Self-reported delinquency. An empirical study. Schwartz publishing house, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-509-00866-9 .

literature

• Peter Schäfer, Elmar GM Weitekamp (Ed.): Establishing victimology: Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff; 30th Anniversary of Dubrovnik Victimology Course. (= Publications of the social affairs department of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Volume 59). Mönchengladbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-933493-40-8 .

Web links

• Website of Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff
• Tokiwa International Victimology Institute website
• World Society of Victimology website
• Literature by and about Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Victims Aid International" , press release of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences from September 26, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2015
2. ↑ Brief profile on the website of the Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 20, 2016. 
3. ↑ Brief profile on the website of the Victimology Institute of Tokiwa University ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 1, 2015. 
4. ↑ Lister of the signatories of the Mainz Declaration on Juvenile Criminal Law ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 1, 2015.