Institute for Legal and Criminal Sociology
The Institute for Legal and Criminal Sociology ( IRKS for short ) is a non-university research institute. The institute is dedicated to the critical analysis of law and control and is one of the leading institutes in European security research. It was founded in 1973 in Vienna by Heinz Steinert and financially supported by the Austrian Ministry of Justice under Christian Broda . At times it was a member of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society . Today the institute is run by an association and is financed by raising research funds. The institute's longstanding employees include internationally recognized criminologists and legal sociologists such as Arno Pilgram , Wolfgang Stangl (†) and Christa Pelikan . Today the institute is headed by Hemma Mayrhofer and Veronika Hofinger as scientific directors and Walter Hammerschick as administrative director.
Selected publications
- Online studies and research reports from the institute
- Hemma Mayrhofer: Stigmatizing frames of interpretation and institutionalized irresponsibility. Structural enabling conditions for violence and neglect of children and adolescents in inpatient accommodation in the recent history of Vienna. Austrian Yearbook for Social Work 1, pp. 22-48, 2019
- Walter Fuchs: Exploring the theoretical landscape - Classical legal sociological approaches, in: Boulanger, Christian / Rosenstock, Julika / Singelnstein, Tobias (eds.), Interdisciplinary legal research - An introduction to the humanities and social sciences dealing with law and its practice, Springer VS , Wiesbaden, pp. 31–68, 2019
- Hemma Mayrhofer among others: Experiences and prevention of violence against people with disabilities. Study on behalf of the BMASGK. Vienna: Research report (with contributions by Anna Schachner, Sabine Mandl, Walter Fuchs, Seidler Yvonne et al.), 2019
- Hemma Mayrhofer (Ed.): Impact evaluation of mobile youth work. Methodological approaches and empirical results. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2017
- Veronika Hofinger: Mission Impossible? The professionalization of Austrian probation between desistance and “what works”. European Journal of Probation 11 (1), 1-13, 2019
- Walter Fuchs, Veronika Hofinger and Arno Pilgram: On the value of quantitative methods for a critical criminology, Kriminologisches Journal, pp. 5–23, 2016
- Heinz Steinert: Max Weber's irrefutable faulty designs. Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2010
- Arno Pilgram u. a. (Ed.): Dangerous images of people. Life sciences, society and crime, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010.
- Reinhard Kreissl (Ed.), Policing in context: legal, organizational, cultural framework conditions for police action, Vienna, Berlin, Münster, 2008
- Christa Pelikan u. a .: The world of mediation, Alekto Verlag, Berlin 1998
- Heinz Steinert (with Gerhard Hanak and Johannes Stehr): Annoyances and life disasters. About dealing with crime every day. AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1989
- Wolfgang Stangl: Paths to a prison-free society: on nationalization and denationalization of the criminal justice system, Verlag der Österr. Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1988