Joachim Kersten

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Joachim Kersten (born March 29, 1948 in Neuss ) is a German sociologist and criminologist .

Kersten earned his first academic degree in 1972 with an MA in Social Sciences from McMaster University, Canada . He then worked as an educator in Berlin and then as a clerk for political education at the Wedding District Office . From 1974 to 1986 he was a social scientist at the German Youth Institute in Munich. During this time he received his doctorate in 1981 at the University of Tübingen . Then he taught criminology at the University of Melbourne until 1991 and worked for a year in the context of European studies at the University of Maastricht , the Netherlands. In 1996 he completed his habilitation in general sociology at the University of Konstanz . From 1999 to 2001 Kersten was Professor of Political Science ( German Studies ) at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. UNITED STATES. From 1999 to 2007 he was also a professor at the Baden-Württemberg Police University.

From 2007 until his retirement in 2013, Kersten was Professor of General Police Science at the German Police University in Münster. He continues to work as a visiting professor for criminal sociology at the university .

Fonts (selection)

  • Youth penalty. Inside views from the jail . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-23813-7 (with Christian von Wolffersdorff-Ehlert).
  • Closed accommodation in homes. Surrender of youth welfare? 2nd edition, Juventa, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87966-369-6 (with Christian von Wolffersdorff and Vera Sprau-Kuhlen).
  • Good and bad. Masculinity, culture and crime . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-015445-5 .
  • The kick and the honor. The sense of youthful violence . Kunstmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88897-227-2 (with Hans-Volkmar Findeisen).
  • Strong guys. Iron Mike, Dirty Harry, Crocodile Dundee and the everyday life of manhood . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4626-4 (editor with Heinz Steinert ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Kersten, employee website of the German Police University , accessed on March 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kersten, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss