Hans-Jürgen Kerner

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Hans-Jürgen Kerner (born December 8, 1943 in Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz ) is a German criminologist .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Kerner studied law from 1963 to 1968 at the universities of Munich , Berlin and Tübingen . In 1973 he was at the University of Tübingen Dr. iur. PhD. In 1975 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen and received the venia legendi for criminology, juvenile criminal law , penal system , criminal procedure law .

In 1975 he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at Bielefeld University . In 1977 he became professor of criminology, youth law and the penal system at the University of Hamburg , and also director of the university's seminar for youth law and youth welfare. In 1979/1980 he was a part-time judge at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. In 1980 he moved to the chair for criminology at the University of Heidelberg and at the same time became director of the institute for criminology. From 1982 to 1984 he was dean of the law faculty at Heidelberg University.

From October 1986, Kerner succeeded Hans Göppinger as professor for criminology, juvenile criminal law, penal law and criminal procedure law at the Law Faculty of the University of Tübingen and at the same time director of the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen. On October 1, 2011, Jörg Kinzig succeeded him as director of the institute.

He has held visiting professorships at the University of Southampton (England), Peking University (Beida) (China), University of Pennsylvania (USA), University of Melbourne (Australia) and University of Cambridge (England).

Kerner has been married since 1975. Since 1963 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich in the CV .

Act

The main research areas of Hans-Jürgen Kerner are life course and career research ( Tübingen young offender comparative study ), outpatient measures, juvenile delinquency, juvenile intensive offenders, applied criminology, crime statistics and organized crime.

He is the initiator of the criminological documentation KrimDok . The Tübingen Institute maintains the first and only German database of criminological literature, in cooperation with the Institute for Criminology at Heidelberg University. KrimDok is a bibliographical reference system for criminological literature from all over the world. In the case of German criminological literature, the aim is to be as complete as possible, around 138,000 titles are recorded.

From 1983 to 1986, as a representative for the Federal Republic of Germany, Kerner was a member of the scientific committee of the European Committee for Crime Problems (CDPC) of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. From 1982 to 2009 he was President of the DBH Association for Social Work, Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. He was co-organizer of the International Criminological Congresses in Vienna 1983, Hamburg 1988, Budapest 1993 and Seoul 1998. He was a member of the Federal Government's Violence Commission (1987–1989) and a member of the Federal Government's Commissions for the First Periodic Safety Report (2001) and the Second Periodical Safety report (2006). He is co-founder of the European Society of Criminology (ESC), was President-Elect, President (and organizer of the 6th Congress in Tübingen in 2006), and Past-President from 2004 to 2007.

He is active in the following institutions and associations, among others: Since 1993 co-founder and chairman of the German Foundation for Crime Prevention and Criminal Assistance; since 1993 member of the research group perpetrator-victim reconciliation (Universities of Gießen, Bremen, Heidelberg, Konstanz, Marburg and Tübingen); since 1997 member of the research advisory board of the Criminological Institute of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden; since 1998 member of the international research group "Youth Groups and Gangs in Europe" (EUROGANG); permanent member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology in Paris (ISC / SIC); Member of the Legal Section of the German Research Foundation (DFG) as one of two elected main reviewers for funding applications in the field of criminology (term of office 2008–2011).

Kerner is a lifetime member of the following professional societies: International Society for Criminology; American Society of Criminology; Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; China Society of Juvenile Delinquency Research.

honors and awards

Kerner was v. a. with the following honors and awards:

  • 1973: University award from the University of Tübingen for a particularly outstanding dissertation
  • 1990: Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for many years of service in social criminal justice, probation assistance and free criminal assistance
  • 1999: Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for outstanding scientific work in criminology
  • 1999: Honorary President for life of the International Society for Criminology
  • 2002: Outstanding Contribution Award in the International Scholarly Exchange of the All-China Society of Juvenile Delinquency Research
  • 2008: Prix ​​Émile Durkheim of the Société Internationale de Criminologie for the scientific life's work and in particular for the promotion of the social science understanding of crime and criminology
  • 2008: Distinguished International Scholar Award of the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology for special merits in international cooperation in criminology in research and teaching

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Kinzig's CV
personal data
SURNAME Kerner, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz