Helga Cremer-Schäfer

Helga Cremer-Schäfer (* 1948 ) is a German sociologist and criminologist .

Helga Cremer-Schäfer is a (now retired) professor specializing in social pedagogy and youth at the Faculty of Education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main . She is a representative of critical criminology .

From 1966 to 1972 she studied sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Her doctorate took place there in 1984. Has been a professor since 1997. Initially, her focus was on social education and youth, since 2009 this has been the area of ​​social education and social inequality within educational science.

On the occasion of her 65th birthday was entitled Episodes of Social Exclusion. Struggles for definition and resistance practices published a commemorative publication in 2013.

Fonts (selection)

• The gentle controllers. How social workers deal with deviants (with Helge Peters ), Stuttgart: Enke, 1975, ISBN 3-432-87751-X .
• Biography and interaction. Self-portrayal of offenders and how they deal with them in society , Munich: Profile, 1985, ISBN 3-89019-148-7 .
• Punishment and repression. On the criticism of populist criminology (with Heinz Steinert ), 2nd revised edition, Münster, Westf .: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89691-680-8 (first edition 1998, ISBN 3-89691-431-6 ) .

literature

• Ellen Bareis and Others: Episodes of Social Exclusion. Struggles for definition and resistant practices. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Helga Cremer-Schäfer , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89691-926-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Cremer-Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal homepage at the University of Frankfurt