Peter Wetzels

Peter Wetzels (born May 7, 1959 ) is a German legal scholar , psychologist and criminologist . He teaches as a professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Peter Wetzels studied economics , psychology and law at the University of Bremen from 1979 to 1990 . There he obtained the academic degree of a qualified psychologist in 1985 , completed the one-step legal training in 1990 , received his doctorate in 1997 and qualified as a professor in 2001 ( Venia legendi for criminology and legal psychology ). Since 1986 he has been providing expert opinions for courts and public prosecutors as a psychological expert. From 1985 to 1987 he worked as a psychologist and research assistant at the University of Bremen, from 1991 to 2002 he was employed at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), most recently as managing director. After working as a lecturer (University of Bremen, University of Hamburg, Technical University of Braunschweig ) and at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and a substitute professorship at the University of Hanover , Wetzels has been Professor of Criminology, Juvenile Criminal Law and Prison Law at the University of Hamburg since 2002 .

He was a member of the bodies responsible for preparing the Federal Government's first and second periodic safety reports, sits on the scientific advisory board of the German Crime Prevention Forum and is the editor of the journal Praxis der Rechtsspsychologie

Web links

• Staff website at the University of Hamburg with a list of publications
• Literature by and about Peter Wetzels in the catalog of the German National Library

Footnotes

1. ↑ www.beltz.de ( Memento from July 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 17, 2016).