Sebastian Scheerer

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Sebastian Scheerer
Sebastian Scheerer (2000)

Sebastian Scheerer (born November 14, 1950 in Lübeck ) is a German criminologist and sociologist .

academic career

After studying law and education at the universities of Cologne , Geneva and Münster , Scheerer completed his studies in Münster as a qualified pedagogue . Afterwards doctorate he attended the University of Bremen to Dr. jur.

He completed his habilitation in sociology at the University of Frankfurt . Scheerer has been Professor of Criminology at the University of Hamburg since 1988 , now as an emeritus . He was also managing director of the Institute for Criminological Social Research .

Fields of work

As a student of Fritz Sack, Scheerer was involved in the establishment and dissemination of critical criminology from the spirit of criminal sociology and symbolic interactionism .

In the 1980s he dealt intensively with questions of drug research and policy, but then turned away when the accepting drug help stopped halfway (towards legalization ). 1997 wrote Scheerer along with Henner Hess , the outline of a constructivist theory of crime , in which he sometimes turns away (microscale his theory approach) of the basic assumptions of critical criminology and also etiological relies crime explanations. Since the debate about the constructivist crime theory, Scheerer has hardly published in the organ of the critical criminology Kriminologisches Journal , but continues - together with Henner Hess - his efforts to provide a general theoretical foundation for criminology. Together with Hess, he is now considered an opposition to German-language critical criminology .

Another focus of Sebastian Scheerer's work since 1988 has been terrorism research .

In terms of criminal policy , Scheerer appeared as a representative of abolitionism in the sense of suppressing or abolishing state criminal law .

In addition to his membership in the Schildower Kreis , a network of experts that argues against drug prohibition , he is also a spokesperson for LEAP ( Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ) Deutschland e. V. , which is also committed to the legalization of drugs . In 2013 he also signed the appeal FOR prostitution to strengthen the rights and improve the living and working conditions of people involved in sex work , which opposes the further criminalization and stigmatization of sex work. He explained to the FAZ: “With whom I have sex, when and how, is a matter of private life. Even if a woman makes it her job. "

Fonts (selection)

  • with Dietmar K. Pfeiffer: Kriminalsoziologie. An introduction to theories and topics . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1979.
  • The genesis of the narcotics laws in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the Netherlands . Schwartz, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-509-01272-0 .
  • with Henner Hess / Martin Moerings / Dieter Paas / Heinz Steinert : Attack on the heart of the state. Social Development and Terrorism , 2 volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • Addiction . rororo special, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-16367-5 .
  • Criminality of the Mighty , in: Kaiser / Kerner / Sack / Schellhoss (eds.), Small Criminological Dictionary, Heidelberg ³1993, pp. 246–249
  • with Henner Hess: What is crime? Sketch of a constructivist theory of crime , in: Kriminologisches Journal , vol. 29, 1997, pp. 83–155
  • The future of terrorism. Three scenarios . To Klampen, Lüneburg 2002, ISBN 3-934920-16-0 .
  • with Henner Hess: Theory of Criminality , in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , special issue 43, 2003, pp. 69–92.
  • Ed. With Henner Hess and Henning Schmidt-Semisch : The meaning province of criminality. On the dynamics of a social field. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014. ISBN 978-3-658-03478-8 .
  • Against Penitentiaries (with Johannes Feest ) in: NO Prison "(Ed. By Massimo Pavarini and Livio Ferrari) London 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Your book contribution Radical boredom becomes by Helge Peters in the introductory text Boring Crime. Attempted a declaration labeled as oppositional. See Peters and Michael Dellwing (eds.): Boring crime. Why criminologists find dealing with crime more interesting than crime , Wiesbaden 2011.
  2. ↑ Last in: Sebastian Scheerer, Critique of Punishing Reason , in: Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften , Vol. 12, 2001, pp. 69–83
  3. ↑ a b The freedom of the suitor, the freedom of women. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 14, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2013 .
  4. ↑ LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Germany eV: Board of Directors, Members: Speakers, Members: Supporters. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition , accessed December 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheerer, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminologist, sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck