Henner Hess

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Henner Hess (born January 12, 1940 in Olomouc ) is a German criminologist and sociologist .

Life

He studied sociology in Heidelberg, Lexington and Paris. After a doctorate (1967) and habilitation (1976), he initially held the chair for criminology at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (from 1979) . In 1982 he followed an appointment as professor for social education at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Since 2001 - and after his retirement (2005) - he has also been director of the Center for Drug Research there . In addition to the drug problem, other focal points of his work were and are criminological theory, the history and future of social control and terrorism. For his book Mafia (Tübingen 1970, since then 12 editions in 4 languages) he received the literary prizes Premio Nazionale Iglesias 1973 and Premio Nazionale Empedocle 1982. In 1997, Hess wrote together with Sebastian Scheerer the sketch of a constructivist crime theory . Together with Scheerer, he is now considered an opposition to the German-language critical criminology , because he no longer exclusively refers to the labeling approach.

Hess is co-founder and director of the “Center for Drug Research” (CDR) and also a member of the Schildower Kreis , an expert network that argues against drug prohibition .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mafia. Central rule and local counterpower. Mohr, Tübingen 1970, ISBN 3-16-545365-9 .
  • with Achim Mechler: Ghetto without walls. A report from the lower class. edition suhrkamp 606, Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Smoke. History, business, dangers , campus, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-593-33807-6 .
  • La rivolta ambigua. Storia sociale del terrorismo italiano. Sansoni, Firenze 1991, ISBN 88-383-1294-X .
  • (together with Sebastian Scheerer ): What is crime? Sketch of a constructivist theory of crime . In: Kriminologisches Journal , Heft 2, 1997 (special edition).
  • with Birgitta Kolte, Henning Schmidt-Semisch : Controlled smoking: Tobacco consumption between prohibition and pleasure . Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 978-3-7841-1520-7 .
  • Repression or Legalization? A drug policy epilogue . In: Bernd Werse (Ed.): Drug markets. Structures and scenes of retail trade . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38635-5 .
  • The invention of crime . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-10070-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Your book contribution: Radical boredom becomes by Helge Peters in the introductory text Boring Crime. Attempted an explanation labeled as "opposition", see: Helge Peters, Michael Dellwing (Ed.): Boring crime. Why criminologists find dealing with crime more interesting than crime . VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17515-7 , p. 25.
  2. ^ Center for Drug Research, Team
  3. ^ Schildower Kreis: Henner Hess
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Henner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc