Thomas Trenczek

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Thomas Trenczek (* 1960 in Leipzig ) is a German law and social scientist.

Career

Trenczek studied 1980-1986 jurisprudence and, from 1982 Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen and (1987/88) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (USA). He completed his law studies with both state exams and his studies in social sciences (focus on educational science and social pedagogy) with the master's degree. Trenczek was a research associate at the criminological institutes of Hans-Jürgen Kerner in Tübingen and Christian Pfeiffer in Hanover. In the field of social sciences he learned from Hans Thiersch and Siegfried Müller as well as Burt Galaway (USA). In 1996 he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. summa cum laude at the University of Tübingen with a comparative study of the punitive and restorative elements in German and US American criminal and civil law.

Trenczek was Federal Managing Director of the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Judicial Assistance (DVJJ) in Hanover from 1988 to 1991 and then for 10 years regional chairman of the DVJJ in Lower Saxony. In 1989 he founded the "DVJJ-Journal" (now: Journal for Juvenile Criminal Law and Youth Welfare - ZJJ) as the responsible editor. During his studies as well as during and after his legal clerkship, he gained practical experience in the legal profession, in medical care and in child and youth welfare. Trenczek has been Professor of Law (public law, youth and criminal law; mediation / conflict management) at the Ernst Abbe University in Jena since 1996 .

Trenczek has been involved in restorative justice and mediation since the mid-1980s and therefore spent a year of study in the USA in 1987/88, where he met Howard Zehr and Burt Galaway and completed his first mediation training. In 2001/02, 2006 and 2011/12 as well as 2017 he spent several months in Australia and New Zealand to get to know the mediation and RJ practice there. He is co-founder and 1st chairman of Waage Hannover eV , registered mediator (BMJ, Vienna), teaching trainer (BMWA) and accredited mediator in Australia (NMAS). From 2003 to 2013 he was the first chairman of Konsens eV, an association promoting mediation in Lower Saxony. Trenczek offers mediation and mediation courses under the Steinberg Institute for Mediation and Conflict Management (SIMK) in Hanover. He is visiting scholar at the Griffith University Law School and the School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University (NZ). He is or was a member of several editorial boards of specialist journals (including Contemporary Justice Review; BM-Spektrum der Mediation; Zeitschrift für Jugendkriminalrecht und Jugendhilfe), commissions, advisory boards (e.g. AGJ, BMWA certification commission, IGfH-FG taking into care, spectrum of Mediation; International Advisory Board Singapore Management University).

Trenczek is interested in the elements and structures of social control and the interdisciplinary entanglement of law and social work. His work focuses on the subject areas

These areas deal with legal (youth law, criminal law, social law, family law), social science (criminology; conflict research) and methodological issues and topics ( mediation and conflict management ). Trenczek is the author and editor of nine books and almost 200 specialist articles on the subject of mediation and restorative justice , child and youth welfare law, taking into care , as well as youth, delinquency and criminal justice.

Publications

  • Moving out of the basement? Legal framework and socio-educational approaches for youth welfare in criminal proceedings. In: RdJB. 1993, p. 316 ff.
  • Restitution - reparation, compensation or punishment? Nomos , Baden-Baden 1996.
  • Punishment, Education or Help? New outpatient measures and education aids . Forum Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-930982-06-4 .
  • Victim-offender-reconciliation: The danger of cooptation and a useful reconsideration of law theory. (PDF) In: Contemporary Justice Review. Vol. 5, 2002, pp. 23-34.
  • The involvement of youth welfare in criminal proceedings. Conception and practice of juvenile court assistance. BeltzVotum, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-407-55906-2 .
  • Dispute settlement in civil society. In: Journal of Legal Sociology. Volume 26, Dec. 2005, pp. 3-33.
  • Victim Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice - the European landscape (together with C. Pelikan); in Sullivan, D./Tifft, L. (eds.) Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective; Taylor and Francis, London (UK), 2006, pp. 63-90.
  • Taking into care - crisis intervention and protection granted by youth welfare. 2nd Edition. Boorberg , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-415-03931-5 .
  • Rehabilitation of juvenile and adolescent offenders. General youth welfare - youth court assistance - youth criminal assistance. In: Cornel u. a .: Handbook for rehabilitation. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, p. 102 ff.
  • Mediation made in Germany - a quality product (together with S. Loode), Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 23 (2012), 61 ff.
  • with J. Münder, T. Meysen (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Commentary on SGB VIII: Child and Youth Welfare . 7th edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-7561-6 .
  • Development and situation of mediation in Australia; ZKM 2012, p. 165 ff.
  • Restorative Justice in New Zealand - Conferencing in the context of criminal proceedings between tradition and modernity; Neue Kriminalpolitik 3/2013, 268–287.
  • Beyond Restorative Justice to Restorative Practice; in Cornwell, D./Blad, J./Wright, M. (eds.) Civilizing Criminal Justice, Hook, Hampshire (UK) 2013, pp. 409 ff.
  • with D. Berning and C. Lenz (Eds.): Mediation and conflict management, practical handbook. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-6886-1 .
  • Restorative Justice - (criminal) conflicts and their settlement. In: AKKrimSoz (ed.): Criminology and social work. Juventa, Weinheim 2014, pp. 193–211.
  • with J. Münder: Child and youth welfare law - textbook. 8th edition. Nomos / UTB, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4498-9 .
  • Restorative justice: new paradigm, sensitizing theory or even practice ?. Restorative Justice: an International Journal; special book review forum - A tribute to Howard Zehr, Routledge 2015, 3: 3, pp. 453–459.
  • Mediation and offender-victim reconciliation. Characteristics and professional standards , magazine for conflict management 1/2016, p. 4–8.
  • Embedding Mediation and Dispute Resolution into Statutory Civil Law: The Example of Germany (together with S.Loode); in: Ian Macduff (ed.): Essays on Mediation - Dealing with Disputes in the 21st Century; Alphen aan den Rijn 2016, chapter 12 (pp. 177–192).
  • Juvenile delinquency, youth welfare and criminal justice; Manual and commentary; (together with B. Goldberg) Munich 2016
  • Impartiality - claim and reality; ZKM 6/2016, p. 230 f.
  • Mediation in conflicts relevant to criminal law - Professional standards taking into account the Mediation Act and the EU Victim Protection Directive (together with A. Hartmann); Neue Justiz 8/2016, pp. 325–333.
  • Handbook of Taking into Care; 3rd edition, Boorberg Verlag, Stuttgart 2017
  • with B. Tammen, W. Behlert, A. v. Boetticher: Fundamentals of the law. 5th edition. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag , Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8252-8726-9 .
  • Crime prevention through restorative justice - evidence from empirical research (together with A. Hartmann), in: Walsh, M. et al. (Ed.) Evidence-oriented crime prevention in Germany; Springer Berlin 2018, p. 859 ff.
  • Handbook Mediation and Conflict Management (Ed.), 2nd edition, Nomos Verlag Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-2948-7
  • with J. Münder, T. Meysen (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Commentary on SGB VIII: Child and Youth Welfare . 8th edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-2232-7
  • Criminal Law and Social Work, (together with Cornel, H.) Nomos Verlag Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-5574-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sw.eah-jena.de
  2. ↑ Trenczek: Restitution - reparation, damages or punishment? Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 978-3-7890-4268-3 .
  3. ↑ Publications. 1996, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ dvjj.de
  5. ↑ sw.eah-jena.de
  6. ↑ steinberg-mediation-hannover.de
  7. ^ Crisis as Conflict: Restorative Justice in Europe. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.otago.ac.nz
  8. ↑ Research report of EAH Jena 2015, 4.
  9. ↑ sw.eah-jena.de
  10. ↑ Publications. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Trenczek, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and social scientist and (registered) mediator
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig