Rowenia Bender is a research associate at the ZKFS and a doctoral candidate in social psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research focuses on social attitudes towards bias-motivated crime, the role of ideologies and social norms in the development of such attitudes and intergroup contact with the police, justice system and offenders.
Rowenia Bender studied psychology in Jena and Chemnitz. She has been an honorary member of the Social Psychology Network on Flight and Integration since 2021 and part of the organizational team of the German Political Psychology Network since 2024.
Current publications (selection):
Bender, R. & Christ, O. (2024). Violence by consent: When the regional climate of opinion condones prejudice-motivated violence. In D. Wagner, J. L. Führer & F. Asbrock (Eds.), From fear of crime to hostility – Dynamics of crime perception in a political context. (S. 17-42). Nomos Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748948445
Bender, R., Krumma, A., Neubert, J., Hoffmann, A., Bolesta, D., Führer, J., & Asbrock, F. (2023). An evaluation of the House of Juvenile Justice Leipzig. Tectum. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783828851177
Bender, R., & Weber, K. (2023). Prejudice crime – Victimization by prejudice-motivated violence. In D. Bolesta, J. L. Führer, R. Bender, A. Bielejewski, A. Radewald, K. Weber & F. Asbrock (Eds.), Panel on Perceptions of Crime and Offenders (PaWaKS): Results of the first to third survey waves. Center for Criminological Research Saxony. https://www.zkfs.de/pawaks
Bender, R., & Asbrock, F. (2022). Intergroup contact with police, justice and offenders. In D. Bolesta, J. L. Führer, R. Bender, A. Bielejewski, & F. Asbrock (Eds.), Panel on Perceptions of Crime and Offenders (PaWaKS): Results of the first survey wave. Center for Criminological Research Saxony. https://www.zkfs.de/pawaks
