Susanne Karstedt

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Susanne Karstedt (* 1949 in Lübeck ) is a German sociologist and criminologist who teaches as a professor at Griffith University in Brisbane , Australia .

Career

Karstedt completed a degree in sociology, psychology and criminology at the University of Hamburg from 1967 to 1973 , from which she graduated as a sociologist. She then worked in the training of social workers and lawyers and gave courses in criminology and social sciences at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . From 1975 she worked in the research department of the personnel department of Deutsche Lufthansa in Cologne. From 1977 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University . There she received her doctorate in 1981 with a paper on the drunkenness in road traffic . From 1990 she worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Hamburg and Bielefeld and as a consultant for crime prevention . In 2000 Karstedt went to Keele University as a professor . Since 2009 she has been a professor at the University of Leeds . She now teaches at Griffith University in Brisbane.

Her work focuses on comparative criminology, everyday and middle-class crime, the Nuremberg Trials and German post-war society, as well as studies on genocide .

Fonts (selection)

  • Standard binding and threat of sanctions: an investigation into the effectiveness of laws using the example of alcohol delinquency in road traffic . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-8204-8148-6 (also dissertation, Bielfeld University 1981).
  • Social exclusion - city reports from Bielefeld . Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 2000.
  • Editor with Kai Bussmann : Social dynamics of crime and control. New theories for a world in transition . Hart, Oxford / Portland (Oregon) 2000, ISBN 1841131431 .
  • Editor: Legal Institutions and Collective Memories , Hart, Oxford / Portland (Oregon) 2009, ISBN 978-1-8411-3327-0 .
  • Editor with David Gadd and Steven F. Messner : The Sage handbook of criminological research methods. Sage Publications, Los Angeles 2012, ISBN 978-1-8492-0175-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Karstedt, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karstedt-Henke, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck