Thomas Feltes
Thomas Feltes (born February 16, 1951 in Mainz ) is a German criminologist , police scientist , lawyer and author.
Life
After studying law and education ( MA ) at Bielefeld University (1971–1976), Feltes was a research assistant at the law faculties of the universities in Bielefeld, Hamburg and Heidelberg (1976–1991). A research stay at the University of Montreal , Canada (1986) was followed by a habilitation in Tübingen for criminology, juvenile criminal law and the penal system (1992). In 1992 Feltes became a professor at the FHöV Berlin and in 1993 was visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Between 1992 and 2002 he was rector and professor at the University of Applied Sciences Villingen-Schwenningen, University of Police Baden-Württemberg .
From 2002 to 2019, Thomas Feltes held the chair for criminology, criminal policy and police science at the Law Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum , succeeding the chair previously headed by Hans-Dieter Schwind . Since 2007 he has also been a co-opted member of the social science faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2006 to 2010 Feltes was a member of the founding senate of the German Police University in Münster.
In addition to research and teaching, Feltes works as a criminal defense attorney in a Dortmund law firm. He is also a Scientific Advisor to the Council of Europe , the UN and the OSCE . He was also general rapporteur and board member of the Police and Human Rights Conference of the Council of Europe in June 1999 and a consultant for the US Department of Justice on the same topic (1999). Between 1999 and 2002 he was a member of the Federal Government's Addiction and Drug Commission . In 2012 he was a reviewer for an INTERPOL conference in Singapore on the subject of "Match Fixing" (betting fraud). For many years he has been working as a forensic expert (mainly on preventive detention and relapse prognoses) for courts. In 2000 he was awarded the Millennium Medal by the Republic of Hungary for special services.
Feltes is a member of the American Society of Criminology , the European Society of Criminology and the International Police Association (IPA). Since 2005 he has published the Bochum publications on legal dogmatics and criminal policy and, together with Jo Reichertz, the series Polieren: Polizei, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft published by Polizei & Wissenschaft (Frankfurt). Feltes is a member of the advisory board of Neue Praxis magazine . He is also the editor of the police newsletter, which has been published since 1999, as well as the online criminology lexicon . His bibliography contains over 160 publications in books and magazines in the areas of police, justice, criminology, and (youth) criminal law.
From 2014 to 2017, Feltes was a member of the G 10 commission of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, which takes action in the course of the application of the law on the restriction of the secrecy of letters, mail and telecommunications - G 10 measures. Since 2015 he has also been a member of the Steering Committee of the EU Horizon2020 project "Community Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform". In 2018 he was appointed German representative to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) of the Council of Europe.
Feltes is a regular guest on television on talk shows and interviewees for political magazine programs and news programs, mostly on police science and criminological topics.
He is chairman of the stadium ban commission of VfL Bochum . From 2010 to 2013 he was a member of the DFL's scientific advisory board , from which he was dismissed after a critical interview on the DFB sports jurisdiction. Together with the Munich lawyer Marco Noli, he filed a constitutional complaint in 2012 against entries made by several BVB fans in the federal central register following a conviction before a Spanish court on the occasion of the BVB Champions League game in Seville in 2010. The Federal Constitutional Court granted the complaint by decision of January 23, 2017 (2 BvR 2584/12), so that the proceedings were referred back to the Berlin Chamber of Commerce. In February 2020, the Superior Court found that the Spanish judiciary was not ready to surrender the trial documents.
Teaching and Research
From 2002 to 2019, Feltes taught criminology, juvenile criminal law, penal law as part of the legal training, but also for minor students. Since 2007 he has been co-opted at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University. His research areas include topics from police research (emergency calls and patrol car operations, police reform and police management, police violence), criminal justice (management of criminal justice, delay in criminal justice, organization of public prosecutors) and general criminology (municipal crime prevention, population surveys, victim research, burglary prevention , Violence in school).
Feltes was the initiator of the accredited advanced master's course “Criminology, Criminology and Police Science” offered and accredited at the legal faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum as well as the international English-language master’s course “Criminal Justice, Governance and Police Science”, which is also offered by the Ruhr University Bochum has been.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Feltes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Thomas Feltes
- Department of Criminology in Bochum
Individual evidence
- ^ The criminal defense law firm: Prof. Dr. Thomas Feltes, MA
- ↑ http://www.felix-verlag.de/index.php/bochumer-schriften
- ↑ http://www.neue-praxis-shop.de/neue-praxis
- ↑ https://polizei-newsletter.de/
- ↑ http://www.krimlex.de/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feltes, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German criminologist and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |