Klaus Boers

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Klaus Boers (* 1953 ) is a German lawyer and criminologist . He teaches as a professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Life

After graduation in Kamp-Lintfort Boers studied philosophy , psychology and pedagogy at the RWTH Aachen University , then completed his military service in Hamburg and subsequently studied at the University of Hamburg Law . After taking the first and second state examinations and a doctorate (fear of crime) in Hamburg, he became an academic councilor and deputy director at the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen . He had several research stays, including a. at the Center for Urban Affairs and Public Policy at Northwestern University in Evanston , the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder , the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge . After his habilitation (crime and causality. An analysis of criminological longitudinal research) in Tübingen and professorial positions at the Technical University of Dresden and at the University of Münster, Boers became full professor of criminology at the University of Münster in 1998 . He was also visiting professor at Niigata University and Chūō University in Tokyo .

Since 2002, a panel study with 3,400 young people from Duisburg has been taking place under the leadership of Boers and the Bielefeld sociologist Jost Reinecke . At the beginning of the survey, the respondents were 13 years old (7th grade), the investigation is to be continued until they are 30 years old. The results presented so far relate to the dark field of juvenile delinquency. A central finding is the fact that there is already a significant decrease in criminal offenses from the age of 15. Even among the so-called intensive offenders, a reduction in the number of offenses was found from the age of 16. The study is part of the DFG- funded project Crime in the Modern City. Youth delinquency and deviance in the change of urban social milieus, lifestyle, leisure and consumption styles, ethnic-cultural orientations and social control , within the framework of which a panel study with young people from Münster was carried out between 2000 and 2003.

In 2010, Boers published together with Hans Theile and Ursula Nelles an empirical study on economic crime in connection with the privatization of GDR companies by the Treuhandanstalt, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

Boers is co-editor of the legal journal Neue Kriminalpolitik , on the advisory board of the monthly magazine for criminology and criminal law reform and chairman of the regional group Westphalia-Lippe of the German Association for Juvenile Courts (DVJJ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Fear of crime: on the context and consequences of a social problem , Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-89085-498-2 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1990)
  • as editor: Social upheaval and criminality in Germany , Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997. ISBN 3-531-12982-1
  • as editor with Jost Reinecke: Delinquency in adolescence. Findings of a longitudinal study in Münster, Münster; New York; Munich; Berlin: Waxmann, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1769-4
  • as editor with Hans Theile: White-collar crime and the privatization of GDR companies. Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5600-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jura.uni-muenster.de/index.cfm?objectid=791FECE9-F970-73C9-9EE49A00A1D1F0E3
  2. ↑ FAZ of February 17, 2011, page 7: Ten sacks of gold and a place name
personal data
SURNAME Boers, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953