Josef Estermann (sociologist)

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Josef Estermann (* 1955 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss sociologist and lawyer.

Career

He studied at the Université de Friborg, Suisse and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1986 he was promoted to Dr. iur. in Friborg doctorate and in 1983 at the Free University Berlin Dr. phil., where he completed his habilitation in 2002 . In 2012 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich. Estermann was department head at the German Federal Health Office (Berlin, today Robert Koch Institute ), the Swiss Federal Health Office ( Bern , Switzerland) and the Federal Statistical Office (Bern). He teaches at the law and philosophy faculties of the Universities of Bern, Lucerne, Zurich and the Free University of Berlin. He is Senior Researcher at the Vienna Center for Societal Security (Vicesse) in Vienna.

His areas of work are legal sociology , social gerontology, epidemiology , sociology of deviant behavior, criminology, social science methods.

Publications (selection)

  • Prisoners. Selective sanctioning, definition of deviant behavior and class justice. Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1984, ISBN 3-8204-5259-1 .
  • Socio-economic conditions and labor jurisdiction. In: H. Rottleuthner (ed.): Legal sociological studies on labor jurisdiction . Writings of the Association for Legal Sociology. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1984, ISBN 3-7890-0966-0 .
  • Criminal careers of prison inmates. An empirical study. Dissertation at the law faculty of the University of Freiburg i.Ue. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8636-4 .
  • MA Koch, R. Bunikowski, J. Estermann, R. Pfeifer, B. Schwartländer: The HIV epidemic in the Federal Republic of Germany. The epidemiological situation, presented on the basis of the data on HIV infections and AIDS available to the Federal Health Office on June 30, 1989. AIDS Center, Federal Health Office, 1989, ISSN  0937-8693
  • Epidemiology of AIDS and HIV infection. In: J. L'age-Stehr, EB Helm (Ed.): AIDS and the preliminary stages. A guide for practice and clinic. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1990 (loose-leaf collection), July 1990: Epidemiology Germany (with J. L'age-Stehr), November 1990: Current case numbers (with J. L'age-Stehr), January 1991: Epidemiology of AIDS and HIV in Switzerland, October 1991: Epidemiology of AIDS and HIV infections in Austria ISBN 3-540-50384-6 .
  • The cost of drug repression. Estimates for Switzerland 1991 . Consommation et trafic de drogues: les coûts de la repression 1991. Federal Statistical Office (ed.), Statistics of Switzerland series, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-303-19005-4 .
  • J. Estermann with contributions by Ute Herrmann, Daniela Hügi, Bruno Nydegger: Social epidemiology of drug consumption. On the prevalence and incidence of heroin and cocaine use and their prosecution. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86135-067-X .
  • Organized crime in Switzerland. Luzern 2002, ISBN 3-907230-11-6 .
  • J. Estermann, HU Kneubühler: Why quality of life is important in nursing homes and how it can be measured. In: Swiss Journal for Sociology. 34 (1), 2008, pp. 187-210, ISSN  0379-3664

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personal data
SURNAME Estermann, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sociologist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne