ZKFS scientist Aileen Krumma in an MDR interview: Why mothers kill their babies? – “They are acts of desperation”
Mothers killing their babies is a very, very rare offense, say psychologists. But the public response to every infanticide is enormous. Aileen Krumma, a research associate at the Center for Criminal Research Saxony in Chemnitz, says that nobody knows how many such neonatal murders there really are. Why do mothers kill their babies? And what […]
ZKFS Colloquium: “Criminalization processes and criminal justice culture: Why we punish and how this is changing”
On 10.03.2025 from 16:15 the Center for Criminological Research Saxony invites you to a colloquium. Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölbel from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich will give a lecture on the topic: Criminalization processes and criminal justice culture: Why we punish and how this is changing. Scientists, practitioners and anyone interested in the topic […]
The Magdeburg attack: Why is it not terrorism?
Our experts Dr. Kristin Weber from the Centre for Criminological Research Saxony and Dr. Claas Pollmanns from the Chair of Social Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology gave an interview to MDR about terrorism and the Magdeburg attack. You can find the article and the podcast here: https://www.mdr.de/wissen/psychologie-sozialwissenschaften/terrorismus-magdeburg-definition-uebergriffe100.html
ZKFS Colloquium: “Knives, murders and migrants: Clichés and patterns of interpretation in German media coverage of violence”
On 10.02.2025 from 16:15 the Center for Criminological Research Saxony invites you to a colloquium. Prof. Dr. Thomas Hestermann from the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences will give a lecture on the topic: Knives, murders and migrants: Clichés and patterns of interpretation in the reporting of violence in the leading German media Scientists, practitioners and […]
ZKFS project “Freedom and Deprivation of Liberty” among the winning teams of the university competition in the Science Year 2024
The Center for Criminological Research Saxony e. V. (ZKFS) was highlighted among the twelve selected institutions in the university competition of the Science Year 2024 on the topic of “Freedom”. The research project “Freedom and Deprivation of Liberty” will now be implemented until the end of the year with prize money of 10,000 euros, awarded […]
Inter-agency cooperation at the House of Juvenile Justice in Leipzig reveals successes, but also challenges
Center for Criminological Research Saxony presents final report on the achievement of self-imposed goals of the first Saxon House of Juvenile Justice as well as recommendations for action. The Center for Criminological Research Saxony e. V. (ZKFS), an affiliated institute of Chemnitz University of Technology, has published its final report on the evaluation of the […]
“Fear is a bad advisor”: New findings from the ZKFS reveal for the first time links between the perception of crime, fear of crime and a lack of trust in the justice system
Representative series of studies by the Center for Criminological Research Saxony provides information on the significance of political orientation for the assessment of forms of punishment, the penal system and white-collar crime The Center for Criminological Research Saxony e. V. (ZKFS), an affiliated institute of Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC), is conducting a longitudinal study […]
Germany’s first housing project for female prisoners. Deputy Director Jennifer Führer in an MDR interview
The “Half Staircase” project has been launched in the Wilsdruff district of Mohorn. Female prisoners can serve their sentences there in a free form. In addition to Katja Meier, Saxon State Minister of Justice and for Democracy, Europe and Equality, and an employee of the Seehaus in Dresden, the deputy director of the Center for […]
On gun laws and perceived safety in Germany – Prof. Dr. Frank Asbrock in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Excerpt from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 22.01.2023, by Marcel Laskus (text) and Regina Schmeken (pictures): Good weapons, bad weapons. For Frank Asbrock, there are only bad ones, at least in the private sphere. At the Center for Criminological Research Saxony at Chemnitz University of Technology, the social psychologist and his team surveyed 5,000 people across Germany […]
Deutsche Welle interview with Prof. Dr. Frank Asbrock on the riots on New Year’s Eve 2022: “NYE violence sparks debate about integration”
The interview with our Director Prof. Dr. Frank Asbrock on the riots on New Year’s Eve 2022 is available at the following link: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-nye-violence-sparks-debate-about-integration/a-64302310
