Michael Bock (criminologist)

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Michael Bock (born May 28, 1950 in Altburg (Calw) ) is a German legal scholar , criminologist and sociologist .

Career

Bock studied 1970-1975 Protestant theology at the University of Tuebingen and closed then: (1 Evangelical Theological service examination degree) sociology studies at he 1978 also at the University of Tübingen with a PhD Doctor of Social Sciences completed. In 1983 he also received his doctorate in law (also in Tübingen) . In 1985 he completed his habilitation in sociology there. Since then he has been a professor in the Faculty of Law and Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , and since 1995 he has also held the chair for criminology , juvenile criminal law, the penal system and criminal law. He retired at the end of the 2015 summer semester.

From 1996 to 1999 Bock taught several times as a visiting professor at the University of Graz (general sociology, sociological theory, social philosophy and the history of sociology). Since 2000 he has also been visiting professor at universities in Colombia (juvenile delinquency, juvenile criminal law, applied criminology) and was appointed honorary professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá .

As a sociologist, Bock is a student of Friedrich Tenbruck , as a criminologist, a student of Hans Göppinger , whose large textbook he is now the sole editor in charge of. Bock is therefore more associated with an idiographic than a nomothetic conception of science . He thus ties in with sociological traditions from the Weimar Republic and the early 50s of the previous century. Important points of reference for him are Max Weber's understanding sociology and his heuristic ideal-type construction.

His work focuses on applied criminology (crime prognosis and intervention planning for offenders). In addition to applied criminology, his publications dominate works on the history and methodology of the social sciences. The method of ideal-typical comparative individual case analysis (MIVEA) , founded by Hans Göppinger and further developed by Bock, is used for the crime prognosis . This should represent a reliable way to predict the future legal behavior of a person who has committed a criminal offense and to make sensible treatment proposals (intervention prognosis).

In response to the debate about the tightening of juvenile criminal law in the run-up to the Hessian state elections in 2008 , Bock published the Mainz Declaration on juvenile criminal law, which instead of changing the law, calls for an improvement in the training and cooperation of institutions and persons dealing with juvenile offenders.

In the general public Bock became known as a proponent of the thesis that domestic violence emanates equally from both sexes. He was one of the critics of gender mainstreaming , which he regards as a “totalitarian increase in women's politics”.

Quote on the crime prognosis

The latest research shows (...) impressively that the vast majority of criminal careers end at some point. So there is no reason for defeatism or for seeing hopeless cases in so-called “chronic” or “career offenders” and stopping the corresponding efforts to change. You only know at the end of your life and not beforehand whether someone was a hopeless case.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sociology as the basis for understanding reality. On the emergence of the modern worldview , Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1980 (also sociological dissertation: Tübingen 1978), ISBN 3-12-915030-7
  • State formation and historiography in ancient Israel. A contribution to the sociology of culture , in: Hans Braun and Alois Hahn (eds.), Culture in the Age of Social Sciences. Friedrich H. Tenbruck on his 65th birthday (1984), pp. 19–42.
  • Criminology as a science of reality , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1984 (also legal dissertation: Tübingen 1983), ISBN 3-428-05535-7
  • Law without measure: The importance of juridification for the person and community ; Writings on cultural sociology, Volume 10, Berlin: Reimer, 1988 (also habilitation thesis), ISBN 3-496-00941-1
  • Gustav Schmoller today: The Development of the Social Sciences in Germany and Italy (1990 - Ed. With Harald Homann and Pierangelo Schiera)
  • Auguste Comte , in: Dirk Kaesler (Ed.), Classics of Sociology 1. From Auguste Comte to Norbert Elias (1999).
  • Metamorphoses of coming to terms with the past ; in: Albrecht, Clemens ; Günter C. Behrmann (Ed.): The intellectual founding of the Federal Republic. A history of the impact of the Frankfurt School ; Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1999, pp. 530-566.
  • Annoying Kinship: The Critical Theory in the Context of the 1920s ; in: Albrecht / Behrmann (ed.): The intellectual foundation of the Federal Republic. A history of the impact of the Frankfurt School ; Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1999, pp. 36–56.
  • Hans Göppinger : Kriminologie , 6th edition, Munich: Beck, 2008 (as sole editor), ISBN 3-406-55509-8
  • The Selective Perception of Domestic Violence , in: Telemach Serassis / Harald Kania / Hans Jörg Albrecht (eds.), Images of Crime III. Representations of Crime and the Criminal , Freiburg, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law 2009, pp. 105–118.
  • Customer orientation - participation - respect: New approaches in social work , Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009 (Ed. With Karin Sanders), ISBN 978-3-531-16867-8
  • Applied criminology. A booklet from Michael Bock . Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute for Applied Criminology, Mainz 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-055520-6 .
  • Kriminologie , 5th edition, Munich: Vahlen, 2019 (1st edition there 1995, 2nd edition there 2000, 3rd edition there 2007, 4th edition there 2013), ISBN 978-3-8006-5916-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Domestic violence - a problem outline from a criminological point of view" - Ed. State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg (2003)
  2. ^ "Gender mainstreaming as a totalitarian increase in women's politics" - criticism by Michael Bock April 14, 2004 , accessed on September 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Michael Bock: Kriminologie , 4th edition, Munich 2013, p. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Altburg (Calw)