Robert Reiner

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Robert Reiner (* 1946 ) is a British criminologist . He is Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is best known for his studies in the police force.

Reimer comes from a Hungarian orthodox Jewish family and studied at the University of Cambridge only economics and sociology . It was only at university that he came into contact with non-Jewish people and with worldly ideas. After completing his studies, and before joining the LSE, he was a reader in criminology at the University of Bristol and Brunel University .

Social Democratic Criminology

In his best-known book The Politics of the Police , Reiner comes to the conclusion that comprehensive, cross-party accepted and practically effective social control ("policing") is only possible within the framework of a social democratically "tamed capitalism" in which the greatest social inequalities are cushioned. The neoliberalization of Western societies (especially in the USA and Great Britain ), on the other hand, increases crime. With it, a selfish consumer culture and recklessness emerges: "Economic laissez-faire creates moral laissez-faire."

With his macro-sociological and structuralist approach, Reiner refers to Robert K. Merton's general explanation of crime. According to this, a strongly materialistic culture, as it is characteristic of capitalist societies, hinders moral regulation and creates anomie on all social levels.

Fonts (selection)

  • Chief constables. Bobbies, bosses, or bureaucrats? Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1991, ISBN 0198256221 .
  • The politics of the police . 4th edition, Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 9780199283392 .
  • Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy. Towards a Social Democratic Criminology . Ashgate, Surrey 2011, ISBN 9781409426363 .
    • German-language excerpt: Political economy, crime and criminal justice. A plea for a social democratic perspective . In: Daniela Klimke, Aldo Legnaro (Ed.), Kriminologische Grundlagentexte , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-06503-4 , pp. 187-201 (translated by Anja Schröder).
  • Crime. The mystery of the common-sense concept . (Polity Press, Malden Massachusetts) 2016, ISBN 9780745660301 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, all information is based on: Daniela Klimke, Aldo Legnaro (ed.), Kriminologische Grundlagentexte , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-06503-4 , pp. 185 f.
  2. ^ Robert Reiner, personal page, LSE
  3. ↑ Quoted from a translation by Daniela Klimke and Aldo Legnaro , in: Same (eds.), Kriminologische Grundlagentexte , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 185.
personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946