Rafael Behr

Rafael Behr (born 1958 in Mainz ) is a German professor of police science at the University of Applied Sciences of the Hamburg Police Academy , where he teaches criminology and sociology . He heads the Research Center for Culture and Security (FOKuS).

Behr also teaches criminology and police science at the Institute for Criminological Social Research at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Bochum . He was a member of the police.Might.Menschen.Rechte reform project of the Austrian police and is a supervisor in the German Society for Supervision (DGSv).

Career

From 1975 to 1990 Behr was a police officer in the Hessian riot police and in the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters . From 1987 he studied sociology and psychology at the University of Frankfurt . From 1992 to 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Police and Justice in Güstrow . He then worked for ten years as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt and obtained his doctorate in 1999 with the work Cop Culture on the organizational culture of the police and on the "everyday life of the monopoly of violence". From 2005 to 2007 he headed the project Migrants in Organizations of Law and Security at the Institute for Security and Prevention Research in Hamburg. In 2008 he became a lecturer at the Lower Saxony Police Academy in Nienburg / Weser . On October 1, 2008, he was appointed to the professorship for police science with a focus on criminology and sociology at the Hamburg Police University.

Sharp criticism of the AfD and right-wing tendencies in the police

Behr is considered a prominent critic of the AfD. Behr announced in 2019 that there was now a more rigorous general mood in the police. More and more police officers would dare to take cover "with their rigid attitudes". The "refugee crisis" left its mark. There are "police officers who share the AfD's intellectual constriction, all the misfortunes in our society are due to the refugees and Ms. Merkel is to blame".

Focus of work

Behr works in the areas of social control, organizational theory and culture of the police, deviance and empirical police research, as well as migration and integration theory and modernization theories of society. The forensic scientist Thomas Ohlemacher counts him among the "qualitative pioneers" of police research . Behr shook the notion of a uniform “police culture” and differentiated between “police” and “police culture”. The police can be seen formally as an organization in the Weber sense with an official police culture “from above” ( Police Culture ). Behr opposes this with a “lived culture of the manual police officers” ( cop culture ), which competes with their guiding principles . In this sense, different aspects then compete the masculinity in the police, the work in the executive suite ( "on the warm heater") with the classic patterns of the rather paternal protection's and the dynamically-aggressive warrior.

"An organization that appears today as a communication partner for citizens' interests, but tomorrow whips another Castor transport through Germany, has a problem with its self-image."

- Rafael Behr (2000)

Publications (selection)

• Cop culture - the everyday life of the monopoly of violence: masculinity, behavior patterns and culture in the police . 2nd Edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15917-1 .
• Police culture: routines - rituals - reflections; Building blocks for a theory of police practice . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14584-6 .
• Migrants in the police - a study on the integration performance of the state monopoly on the use of force (PDF, 409 kB)
• Police and discrimination: an attempt at clarification. (PDF, 252 kB)
• About police and violence. Article in the journal Berliner Republik , issue 03/2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Rafael Behr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications listed at the Saxon Police College
• Short biography and reviews of works by Rafael Behr at perlentaucher.de
• When the policeman whines. Article by Rafael Behr inDie Zeit , No. 44/2011, accessed on February 21, 2020
• The police consider whistleblowers to be fellow pigs. Interview with Rafael Behr at Süddeutsche Zeitung Online on May 19, 2015, accessed on February 21, 2020.
• Traitors are sanctioned Interview with Rafael Behr at taz.de on May 20, 2015, accessed on February 21, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Professor Rafael Behr. In: Academy of Police Hamburg. Retrieved September 13, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Rafael Behr: Blockupy demo: "We had everything much worse" - info box. In: time online. March 18, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Rafael Behr: Risks and side effects of dangerous communities. A contribution of police culture research to the theory of police practice. (PDF, 96 kB) Retrieved September 13, 2015 . 
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5. ↑ Interdisciplinary Police Science: Prof. Dr. Rafael Behr. In: University of the Saxon Police. Retrieved September 13, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Anja Mensching: Lived hierarchies: micropolitical arrangements and organizational cultural practices using the example of the police . VS Verlag. for social sciences, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15718-4 , pp. 81–82.
7. ↑ Jonas Grutzpalk: contributions to a comparative sociology of police . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-940793-74-4 , p. 102.