Key Staff
University of Kent - Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) - University of Hamburg - Utrecht University
University of Kent, academic staff list
Professor Chris Hale (research interests: political debates, quantitative analysis, policing)
Professor Jock Young (research interests: social exclusion and crime; immigration;terrorism; criminological theory)
Professor Roger Matthews (research interests: penology, armed robbery, punitiveness, left realism)
Professor Larry Ray (research interests: sociological theory; globalisation; race and ethnicity)
Professor Alex Stevens (research interests: illicit drug policies, crime and public health)
Professor Keith Hayward (research interest: cultural criminoloy, criminological theory; popular culture)
Professor Phil Hubbard (research interests: geographies of the city; eg. segregation, exclusion, sex work)
Dr Dave Boothroyd (research interests: cultural theory, cultural metaphysics and European thought)
Dr Phil Carney (research interest: radical criminology; cultural criminology; critical visual culture)
Dr Caroline Chatwin (research interest: European drug policy; young people and victimisation)
Dr Jennifer Fleetwood (research interest: Gender and crime; drug trafficking; ethnography)
Dr Johnny Ilan (research interests: youth, class, urban sociology and cultural criminology)
Dr Kate O'Brien (research interests: night-time economy; drug markets; bouncers and private policing)
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest Academic staff
| 1980 | MSc in Law, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1984 | Judge/prosecutor Bar Exam |
| 1998 | Habilitation |
| 1998- | Professor |
| 1981-2004 | Full-time lecturer, University of Miskolc |
| 1992-2000 | Vice-dean, University of Miskolc Faculty of Law |
| 1995-2006 | Director, Scientific Institution in Criminology, University of Miskolc Faculty of Law |
| 2000-2004 | Dean, University of Miskolc Faculty of Law |
| 2001-2004 | Part-time lecturer, Scientific Institution in Criminology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University |
| 2004- | Head of Department of Criminology, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 2007- | Judge of the Constitutional Court of Hungary |
| 2010- | President, European Society of Criminology |
Research fields
Criminological aspects of the drug problem,
Drug policy
Constitutional and penal aspects of criminalization
The effects of social change on delinquency and criminal policy
Juvenile crime and justice
Children’s rights
| 1968 | MSc in Law, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1978 | PhD |
| 1990 | Doctor of Legal Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| 1968-1979 | Assistant Professor, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1979-1990 | Associate Professor, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1984-1995 | Guest lecturer, ELTE University Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Department of Social Policy |
| 1985-1988 | Vice-dean, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1990- | Professor of Criminology, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1999-2003 | Member of the Habilitation Board of ELTE University |
| 2003- | Head of the PhD Board of ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 2006- | Member of the Scientific Board of ELTE University |
| 1985- | Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Criminology |
| 1988-1999 | Member of the Board of Directors of Penal Reform International |
| 1995-2001 | Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Hungary |
| 1992-2001 | Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research |
| 2000-2001 | European Director of the International Ombudsman Institute |
| 2004- | President of the Hungarian Society of Criminology |
| 2003-2009 | Head of the National Crime Prevention Board |
| 2006-2009 | Lead Advisor of the Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement of Hungary |
Research fields
Alternative sanctions
Restorative justice
Social reproduction of crime
Limits of punitive power
Social policy and criminal policy
Crime prevention strategies
Reform of the National Probation Service
A new conception of victim policy and victim support in Hungary
Community sentences
| 1978 | MSc in Law, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1981 | Judge/prosecutor Bar Exam |
| 1993 | PhD in Criminology |
| 2007 | Habilitation, ELTE University |
| 1981-1992 | Research Fellow, National Institute of Criminology |
| 1992-1995 | Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Criminology |
| 1995-1996 | Head of Department of Research and Investigation, Parliamentary Commissioners’ Office |
| 1996-1997 | Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Criminology |
| 1998-2006 | Head, Crime Research Department, National Institute of Criminology |
| 2006- | Deputy Director, National Institute of Criminology |
| 1999-2000 | Associate Professor, University of Debrecen Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law |
| 1986-1999 | Guest lecturer, ELTE University Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Department of Social Policy |
| 1992-1993 | Guest Lecturer, ELTE University Faculty of Law, Department of Criminology |
| 2000- | Associate Professor, ELTE University Faculty of Law, Department of Criminology |
| 2003-2004 | Acting Head of Department of Criminology, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
Research fields
Imprisonment
Alternative sanctions in criminal law
Criminal sanctions in general
Community sentences
Juvenile criminality
Criminal policy
Crime prevention
Restorative justice
| 2002 | MSc in Law, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 2003-2004 | Marie Curie Fellowship, Keele University, UK |
| 2009 | completed studies at the ELTE University Faculty of Sociology |
| 2011 | PhD of Criminology, ELTE University |
| 2008- | Research fellow, National Institute of Criminology |
| 2006- | Teaching Assistant, ELTE University Faculty of Law, Department of Criminology |
| 2004- | External expert of the National Crime Prevention Board |
Research fields
Criminal policy
Crime prevention
Penology
| 1983 | MSc in Law, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 2008 | PhD |
| 2011 | Habilitation, ELTE University |
| 1987-1989 | Teaching Assistant |
| 1989- | Adjunct Professor, ELTE University Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Procedure |
| 1992-2008 | Adjunct Professor, Szent Pál Academy |
| 2008- | Associate Professor, Szent Pál Academy |
| 1998-2006 | Guest lecturer, Széchenyi István University |
| 1989-2007 | Co-founder and member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee |
| 1990-2002 | Member of the National Assembly of Hungary |
| 1994-1998 | Chairperson of Committee on Constitutional, Legislative and Judicial matters (of the National Assembly of Hungary) |
| 1996-1997 | Member of the National Council of Justice of Hungary |
| 2007-2008 | Member of the Anti-corruption Coordination Board (Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement of Hungary) |
| 2007- | Member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International Hungary |
| 2008-2011 | Member of the Educational and Scientific Board of the National Council of Justice of Hungary |
Research fields
Law enforcement
Justice system
Corruption
Human rights in the criminal procedure
The legal state
| 1990 | MSc in Law, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 1991 | MSc in Sociology, ELTE University Faculty of Sociology |
| 2001 | PhD |
| 2007 | Habilitation, ELTE University Faculty of Law |
| 2011- | Professor |
| 1995- | Lecturer and researcher, ELTE University Faculty of Law, Department for Sociology of Law |
| 2004- | Head of Department, ELTE University Faculty of Law, Department for Sociology of Law |
| 1990-1993 | Researcher, Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute for Sociology |
| 1995-1999 | Participating in a research coordinated by the Max Planck Institute für Europaische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt/Main) |
| 2001 | Participating in EU Accession Monitoring Program (Open Society Institute) |
| 2004 | Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study |
Member of the Board of Faculty
Member of the MAB (Hungarian Accreditation Committee, Social Science Subcommittee
Research fields
Sociology
Sociology of law
Sociology of judiciary
Cultural and legal aspects of equal opportunity
Judicial independence in the socialist and present era
Status of judges
Law-enforcement in Hungary
Prejudices in Hungarian society
Legal culture and rule of law
University of Hamburg
Academic Staff
Prof. Dr. Klaus Eichner (Professor of Sociology, Institute for Sociology)
Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein (Professor of Sociology, Department of Socioeconomics)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann (Professor of Sociology, Institute for Criminological Research)
Dr. Bettina Paul (Senior Lecturer, Institute for Criminological Research)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Fritz Sack (Institute for Security and Prevention Research)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scheerer (Director of Postgraduate Criminology Courses, Department of Social Sciences)
PD Dr. Jan Wehrheim (Researcher, Institute of Criminological Research)
Prof. Dr. Peter Wetzels (Director of the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Law)
Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD (Professor of Political Science & Global Governance, Board of Directors, Centre for Globalisation and Governance)
Dr. Nils Zurawski (Institute for Criminological Research)
Profiles of the Supervisors at the University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scheerer is the director of Hamburg University’s two postgraduate courses in criminology, i.e. the M.A. in International Criminology and the M.A. in Criminology (continuing education). He has published extensively in the fields of criminological theory, drugs, terrorism, and the theory of punishment, and his name is associated with the critique of criminal law. He offers research supervision for theses with a focus on human rights.
Website:
http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/institut-fuer-kriminologische-sozialforschung/team/akademisches-personal/prof-dr-sebastian-scheerer/
Contact: sebastian.scheerer@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Criminological Research, University of Hamburg. Her research and teaching areas focus on the topics of governing security; transformations in the rule of law; social control technologies; contemporary sociological and political theories. She is an active member of the managing committee of the German Society of Interdisciplinary Scientific Criminology (GiwK) and an internationally recognized expert in the field of governmentality studies.
She offers research supervision in the following areas: Governing Security and the Law / Critical Security Studies; Poststructuralist Theory; Accounting for Macro-Crimes
Website:http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/institut-fuer-kriminologische-sozialforschung/team/akademisches-personal/prof-dr-susanne-krasmann/
Contact: susanne.krasmann@uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein holds a chair in Microsociology at the Department of Socioeconomics, University of Hamburg. She received her doctorate degree at the Free University, Berlin and has been lecturer and researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Mannheim University and Humboldt-University, Berlin. She is acting director of the Graduate School, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, and director of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG) at Hamburg University. She is board member of the German Sociological Association and board member of the German Sociological Association`s Sociological Network Research section. Her primary areas of research and teaching are social networks, sociology of the life course, social inequality, and social research methods.
She offers research supervision in the following areas: criminal (“dark”) networks, juvenile delinquency, delinquent life courses and careers, social exclusion, networked governance.
Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD, who started her career at Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Bath and who is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS UK), joined the University of Hamburg in 2009 as a Professor of Politics & Global Governance, where she is also on the board of directors of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance. She is a founding editor of the Cambridge University Press’ journal on Global Constitutionalism – World of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (GlobCon) and conducts interdisciplinary research in all the areas covered by the scope of the journal (and a few more).
Website: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/ipw/individualseiten/wiener-antje/
Contact through: christiane.krueger@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
Professor Dr. Peter Wetzels, director of the Institute of Criminal Sciences of Hamburg University's Faculty of Law, is both a renowned psychologist and legal scholar, who - before his present position - had already been director of the Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen e.V. (KFN). Professor Wetzels' publications and research interests comprise juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, child abuse and maltreatment, fear of crime/sense of security, but also the complex of migration, religion, and crime as well as questions concerning the methodology of evaluation research and international comparisons.
Website: http://www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/personen/wetzels
Contact: peter.wetzels@uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Dr. Dr. emer. Fritz Sack*, sociologist and criminologist, worked at several German Universities (Cologne, Regensburg, Hannover), since 1984 at the University of Hamburg, where he was the longtime director of the only German postgraduate programme in criminology. Today he is the Head of the Institute for Security and Prevention Research. He has spent a research year at the universities of Ohio and Berkeley/Cal. during the sixties and one further year at the universities of Montréal, Barcelona, New York University and the CESDIP in Paris in the beginning of the nineties.
Up today he is the leading representative of critical criminology in Germany. For more than two decades he was an elected consultant and expert in sociology and criminology for the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)” and still serves as a scholarship and recruitment consultant for the “Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung”. His publications and research projects focus on the sociology of crime and social control, sociology of criminal law.
His most important research was his study on the “causes” of German terrorism which he executed as a member of a government commission in the late seventies.
Prof. Sack offers research supervision in the following areas: Juvenile delinquency and subculture, Causes of terrorism, History of Criminology, The “punitive turn” in modern, neo-liberal democracies and its structural sources.
Website: http://www.fritz-sack.com/
Contact: sack@uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Dr. Klaus Eichner* is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is member of the Directory Board of the affiliated research centre for rehabilitation and prevention at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg. Relating to his research interests he is member of a Brazilian association and he has published extensively about Brazilian health and sociological issues.
Further publications are in the field of empirical research and theoretical analysis / social networks.
Offering research supervision in the following areas: longitudinal studies on crime and crime prevention in international comparison, (e.g. by use of dynamic models, dynamic interpretation of anomie theory, multilevel explanations)
Website: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/institut-fuer-soziologie/personal/entpflichtete-und-pensionierte-professoren/klaus-eichner/
Contact: eichner@uni-hamburg.de
*Note that Prof Sack and Prof. Eichner (as emeritus professors) can only supervise a doctoral thesis in combination with another supervisor who is an active professor of their university.
Utrecht University, academic staff list
Academic staff
Research interests
Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge
- Drug trafficking, use and policies
- Green criminology (deforestation, wildlife trade)
- Youth crime and culture
- Organized crime
- Latin America, Africa and Indonesia
Prof. dr. Miranda Boone
- Comparative penology
- Punishment and prison systems
- Criminal justice system
- Alternative sanctions
- Criminal procedure
Prof. dr. Frank Bovenkerk
- Organised crime and ethnic minorities
- Crime in a multicultural society
- Terrorism and radicalization
- Youth crime
- ‘Third World’ criminology
Prof. dr. Chrisje Brants
- (Methodology of) comparative criminal justice
- Fundamental rights and criminal law (ECHR)
- Media, crime and the criminal law
- Prosecution and prosecution policy
- International criminal law, courts and tribunals (ICC)
Prof. dr. François Kristen
- European criminal law
- Financial criminal law
- Corporate and economic crime
- Criminal law and procedure, and expert evidence
- Judicial system
Prof. dr. Frans Koenraadt
- Forensic psychology and psychiatry
- Psychopathology
- Homicide, suicide and sexual crime
- Arson
- Sanctions and treatment
Prof. dr. Hector Olásolo
- International criminal law and justice
- Human rights
- International courts and tribunals
- Transitional justice
- Latin America
Dr. Brenda Oude Breuil
- Prostitution and trafficking of women
- Gender and crime
- Globalization and crime
- Ethnographic methods
- Child protection and the criminal justice system
Prof. dr. Dina Siegel
- Transnational organised crime
- Trafficking of women
- Art and crime
- Ethnographic methods
- Eastern Europe
Prof. dr. John Vervaele
- European criminal law
- International criminal law
- Economic crime
- Law enforcement and human rights
- Latin America
Prof. dr. Ido Weijers
- Comparative juvenile justice
- Youth crime
- Peer groups and gangs
- Historical perspectives on criminal justice
- Courts
Dr. Damián Zaitch
- Transnational organized crime
- Drug trafficking and polices
- Green criminology
- Qualitative research methods
- Latin America
