Publications
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Overview of all publications
2025
Asbrock, F., Bender, R., Krumma, A. & Wagner, D. (in press). The role of intergroup contact in crime prevention. In E. Marks, C. Heinzelmann & G. Wollinger (Eds.), Safety in transition. Selected contributions from the 29th German Congress on Crime Prevention. Forum Verlag Godesberg.
Bender, R. & Weber, K. (2025). Research on bias-motivated crime – an overview with an outlook. In: Kemmesies, U., Wetzels, P., Austin, B., Büscher, C., Dessecker, A., Hutter, S, Rieger, D.(eds.) Motra-Monitor 2024. Wiesbaden: Motra.
Buhl, S., Osborne, D., Sibley, C.G. & Absrock, F. (2025). Rebels with (out) a cause: the influence of gender inequality on the relationship between egalitarianism and system justification. Personality and Socal Psychology Bulletin. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/czb6u
Krumma, A., Bender, R., Führer, J. L., Bielejewski, A., & Weber, K. (2025). Migrant crime and the social debate: a distorted threat picture. Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy. Available online at: https://btw2025.cemas.io/artikel/migrantische-kriminalitaet-und-die-gesellschaftliche-debatte
Steinmetz, K., Wagner, D., Asbrock, F., Meißelbach, C., & Melcher, R. (2025). A project for the “Silent Center”? The European Capital of Culture 2025 in Chemnitz. In T. Laux and U. Bohmann (Eds.), European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 – Socio-spatial explorations (pp. 199 – 226). Transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/c9/0d/39/oa9783839472347.pdf
Weber, K. (2025). Intercultural competence. Status quo and recommendations for action . In: Ellebrecht, S., Poscher, R., Jarolimek, S., Kaufmann, S. (eds.): Die Polizei in der offenen Gesellschaft. On the police approach to diversity and variety. Transcript.
Weber, K. (2025). Striving for recognition – Radicalization trajectories of German Syrian returnees. In.Ufuq. Available at: https://www.ufuq.de/aktuelles/streben-nach-anerkennung-radikalisierungsverlaeufe-deutscher-syrien-rueckkehrerinnen/
Weber, K., Asbrock, F. (2025). Radicalization. In: Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1735-1
Weber, K., Bender, R. & Asbrock, F. (2025). Prejudice-motivated violence. State of research and consequences for those affected. In O. Decker, F. Kalkstein, J. Kiess & P. Kocyba (Eds.), Democracy in Saxony. Yearbook of the Else Frenkel Brunswik Institute for 2024 (S. 143-164. Edition Überland.
Weber, K. & Jarolimek, S., (2025). As a younger colleague, you are inclined to absorb everything you are told – The ambivalence of police experience“. In: Seidensticker, K. (ed.): Error culture in the police. VS Springer.
Weber, K., Wagner, D., & Asbrock, F. (2025). Do Police Crime Statistics Influence the Perception of Security and Threat by Refugees and Migrants? Magazine of theSocial Psychology Networkon Flight and Integration. Available online at https://www.fachnetzflucht.de/kriminalstatistik/
2024
Asbrock, F., Bender, R. & Bielejewski, A. (2024). Trust and police and justice – What role does contact play? The Police, 115(2), 45-53.
Asbrock, F. & Bolesta, D. (2024). “Against those up there and those down there” – The role of ideological attitudes in the devaluation of refugees and politicians in Saxony. In S. Garszteck, T. Laux, & M. Nebelin (Eds.), Focal points of the “new” right. Global developments and the situation in Saxony (S. 115-136). transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/1c/7b/e5/oa9783839465790.pdf
Azevedo, F., Micheli, L., & Bolesta, D. S. (2024). Does stereotype threat contribute to the political knowledge gender gap? A preregistered replication study of Ihme and Tausendpfund (2018). Journal of Experimental Political Science, 11(1), 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2022.35
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
Bielejewski, A. (2024). Corrections, media, and institutional logic: A practical report. Journal of Criminology, 56(3), 233-243.
Bielejewski, A. (2024). Words for a closed society. The role of prison newspapers using the example of HaftLeben. Indes – Journal for Politics and Society, 11(4), 27- 41.
Kauff, M., Lämmle, L., Kroll, E., Gehring, L., Soucek, R., & Asbrock, F. (2024). Should the city be for everyone? The relationship between worldviews, ideological attitudes, and the approval of hostile design. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(4), e2867. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2867
Wagner, D., Führer, J. L. & Asbrock, F. (2024, eds.). From fear of crime to hostility. Dynamics of crime perception in a political context . Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748948445
Weber, K. & Asbrock, F. (2024). Security and crime in transition: A critical review of current developments. In G. R. Wollinger (Ed.), Security in transition. Expert reports on the 29th German Congress on Crime Prevention (S. 19-49). Deutscher Präventionstag gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH. [Full text]
Weber, K. & Jarolimek, S., (2024 in press.): As a younger colleague, you are inclined to absorb everything you are told – The ambivalence of police experience“. In: Seidensticker, K. (ed.): Error culture in the police. VS Springer.
2023
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
Bielejewski, A. (2023). In forced society: Media, cohesion and identity in correctional facilities. In T. Bliesner, L. Deyerling, A. Dreißigacker, I. Henningsmeier, M. Neumann, J. Schemmel, C.P. Schröder & L. Treskow (Eds.) Kriminalität und Kriminologie im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung, Mönchengladbach: Forum Verlag Godesberg.
Bielejewski, A. (2023). Holding down the Fort: Policing Communities and Community-Oriented Policing in Rural Germany. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39773-9
Pollmanns, C. & Asbrock, F. (2023). If graffiti changed anything, it would be illegal. The influence of political graffiti on the perception of neighborhoods and intergroup attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1098105
Radewald, A. & Bielejewski, A. (2023). Public perception of the penal system. In: Bolesta et al. (eds.) Panel on Perceptions of Crime and Offenders (PaWaKS): Second series of reports. Center for Criminological Research.
Weber, K. (2023). Islamist terrorism in Germany. Analysis of the perpetrator profiles of German returnees from Syria on the basis of court files . (Dissertation). Springer VS.
2022
Asbrock, F., Bender, R., Bolesta, D. & Leininger, A. (2022). Conference Report “24h of Political Psychology” – Annual Conference of the German Political Psychology Network. Research Journal Social Movements, 35(2), 399-403. https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2022-0028 (OA)
Asbrock, F., Mayerl, J., Holz, M., Andersen, H. K., & Maskow, B. (2022, April 15). “AI Takeover… doesn’t sound that bad!” – Authoritarian ambivalence towards artificial intelligence. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2tvs4 (OA)
Bolesta, D. (2022). How to deal with false reports about refugees? Available online at https://www.fachnetzflucht.de/wie-kann-man-mit-falschmeldungen-ueber-gefluechtete-umgehen/ (OA)
Friehs, M.-T., Kotzur, P. F., Böttcher, J., Zöller, A.-K. C., Lüttmer, T., Wagner, U., Asbrock, F., & van Zalk, M. H. W. (2022). Examining the Structural Validity of Stereotype Content Scales – A Preregistered Re-Analysis of Published Data and Discussion of Possible Future Directions. International Review of Social Psychology, 35(1), 1. http://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.613 (OA)
Gärtner, L., Asbrock, F., Euteneuer, F., Rief, W., & Salzmann, S. (2022). Self-Stigma Among People With Mental Health Problems in Terms of Warmth and Competence. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.877491 (OA)
Wagner, D., Führer, J.L., & Asbrock, F. (2024). From fear of crime to hostility: Dynamics of crime perception in a political context. Nomos.
Bender, R. et al. (2023). An evaluation of the House of Juvenile Justice Leipzig: Goals, successes, challenges. Tectum.
Bielejewski, A. (2023). Holding down the Fort: Policing Communities and Community-Oriented Policing in Rural Germany. Springer VS.
Weber, K. (2023). Islamist terrorism in Germany. Analysis of the perpetrator profiles of German Syrian returnees on the basis of court files. Springer VS.
Conference presentations & workshops
2025
10.05.2025. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Between True Crime and Tagesschau. The perception of crime and its consequences”, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften der Technischen Universität Chemnitz.
05.-06.05.2025. Kristin Weber, Chair of a panel discussion in the Open Space on the topic “Islamic State Khorasan Province in Focus. New strategies and recruitment tactics”. Conference of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB) “Reinventing the wheel? Islamism and prevention in times of crisis”, Cologne.
30.04.2025. Aaron Bielejewski, lecture: “Hinter Mauern: Erfahrungen und Erzählungen aus dem Justizvollzug”, exhibition and film lecture “Freiheit und Freiheitsentzug”, University Library TU Chemnitz.
14.04.2025. Aileen Krumma, lecture: “Wege in die Freiheit: Resozialisierung durch (alternative) Vollzugsformen“, exhibition and film lecture “Freiheit und Freiheitsentzug”, University Library TU Chemnitz.
09.04.2025. Aileen Krumma & Rowenia Bender, Lecture: “Perceiving, experiencing and reporting violence. Connections between experiences of violence and trust in law enforcement agencies “, online seminar on serious violent crime, annual training program 41/2025, German Police University.
06.04.2025. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Forschung Wissenschaftskommunikation (auch) zur Kriminalprävention”, digital workshop Praxis meets Studium at TUCed – An-Institut für Transfer und Weiterbildung der Technischen Universität Chemnitz.
25-27.03.2025. Kristin Weber, selected speaker at the conference: CEPOL Research and Science Conference with the presentation: ” Islamic Terrorism in Germany – The Use Of Social Network Analysis To Detect High-Risk criminal networks”. Training opportunity for employees of the European security authorities. Rome, Italy.
21.03.2025. Aaron Bielejewski,Lecture: “Bars, Money, and Big Plans: Narratives of Survival and Success in and after Prison”, Workshop “Erzählungen (in) der Kriminologie”, Bielefeld.
12.03.2025. Rowenia Bender, Aileen Krumma & Frank Asbrock, lecture:“Intergroup contact and crime prevention – empirical findings from social psychology“, online seminar on serious violent crime, annual training program 40/2025, German Police University.
15.01.2025. Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Right-wing extremism in Saxony. A current stocktaking”, Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Chemnitz.
2024
03.12.2024 Rowenia Bender, Lecture: “Social attitudes towards prejudice crime: adaptation and validation of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale”, Research Colloquium of the Institute of Psychology, Chemnitz.
29.10.2024 Kristin Weber & Rowenia Bender, Lecture: “Gewalt gegen Amts- und Mandatsträger:innen; Ergebnisse aus dem Panel zur Wahrnehmung von Kriminalität und Straftäter:innen (PaWaKS)”, Fachtag Gewalt gegen Amts- und Mandatsträger*innen, Forschung und Praxis im Dialog, Chemnitz.
26.09.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, lecture: “Ohne Arbeit bin ich halt nur Straftäter: Narrative über Arbeit und Karriere unter arbeitenden Strafgefangenen”, 18th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society, Tübingen.
20.09.2024 Rowenia Bender, Deliah Wagner & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Assessing Societal Attitudes towards Hate Crime: Validation of an Adapted Version of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale”, 5th Annual Meeting of the German Political Psychology Network. Vienna, Austria.
16.09.2024. Jennifer Laura Führer, Deliah Bolesta, Annalena Oehme & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Interindividual differences in the stereotypical perception of criminal offenders”, 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria.
16.09.2024. Klara Steinmetz, Deliah Bolesta & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “They are all a threat to us!– World views, ideological attitudes and prejudices towards politicians and refugees”, 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria.
16.09.2024. Deliah Wagner, Jennifer Laura Führer, Rowenia Bender & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Behind the headlines: Investigating stereotypes and punishment perceptions in crime narratives”, 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria.
12.07.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “No place like home: exploring media use, prisonization, and identity in prison”, Conference of the British Society of Criminology, Glasgow, UK.
11.07.2024. Kristin Weber, Lecture: “The (un)recognized victims of hate crime: the link between direct and indirect victimization, reporting behavior and trust in the police”, Conference of the British Society of Criminology, Glasgow, UK.
10.07.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “They seem alright to me: Small-town community-oriented policing in Germany”, Conference of the British Society of Criminology, Glasgow, UK.
28.06.2024. Frank Asbrock & Deliah Wagner, lecture: “Warum das alles nicht so einfach ist: Kriminalität, Kriminalitätswahrnehmung und die Folgen”, Johannstätter Kulturtreff e.V., Dresden.
20.06.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, lecture: “Gefängnis-Ethnografie?, oder: wie ich lernte, nichts von Kommunikation zu verstehen – Medien, Kommunikation, und Forschung als Außenseiter im Strafvollzug”, 9th Fieldwork Days, Dortmund.
10.06.2024. Frank Asbrock, Rowenia Bender, Aileen Krumma & Deliah Wagner, Lecture: “The role of intergroup contact in crime prevention”, 29th German Prevention Day, Cottbus. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35538.16320
07.06.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, lecture: “No bars, no boundaries? Media as home in the prison experience”, Conference of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI), Pisa, Italy.
06.06.2024. Kristin Weber, Lecture: “The dark path of German terrorist fighters – radicalization processes, social networks and jihadist preachers as important key players”, Conference of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI), Pisa, Italy.
28.05.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, Workshop: “Verantwortung übernehmen & verantwortlich sein (in geschlossenen Institutionen)”, Seehaus e.V. Fachtag “Verantwortung lernen – im Zwangskontext?”, Neukieritzsch OT Kahnsdorf.
24.04.2024. Aaron Bielejewski & Aileen Krumma, Workshop: “Researching lived experiences in prison” as part of an exchange meeting with the FUU Saxony, Chemnitz.
20.03.2024. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “Is there anybody out there? Communication from (and in) prison”, Leakage: Inaugural Conference of stsing, Dresden.
07.03.2024. Rowenia Bender & Kristin Weber, Lecture: “Vorurteilsmotivierte Kriminalität – Ausgewählte Ergebnisse aus dem Panel zur Wahrnehmung von Kriminalität und Straftäter:innen (PaWaKS)”, Conference of the Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalization (MOTRA) on “Transformations of Extremism and Intolerance in Germany and Europe”, Wiesbaden.
04.02.2024. Frank Asbrock & Deliah Wagner, Lecture: “Straftaten gegen Amts- und Mandatsträger:innen: Kriminologische Befunde zu gesellschaftlichen Hintergründen”, conference “Orientierung finden in Kristenzeiten – Wege aus eskalierenden Situationen im Sozialraum”, Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Dresden.
2023
29.11.2023. Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Kriminalitätsfurcht und das Vertrauen in Polizei und Justiz”, Briefing of the Attorney General of the Free State of Saxony, Dresden. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34292.12166
24.11.2023. Anika Radewald, Kristin Weber & Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Sexual violence, fear of crime and reporting behavior”, symposium on domestic violence at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences.
23.11.2023. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Is everything getting worse? Current developments in youth violence in Germany and Saxony-Anhalt”, symposium on current developments in youth violence, Aschersleben. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31352.83209
09.11.2023. Kristin Weber, Lecture: “Der Einfluss von psychosozialen Faktoren bei der Radikalisierung am Fallbeispiel einer deutschen Jihadistin”, Conference of the Network for Terrorism Research (NTF), Berlin.
09.11.2023. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Rechtsruck in Chemnitz. Socio-psychological findings and explanatory approaches”, Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Chemnitz.
01.11.2023. Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Kriminalitätsfurcht und das Vertrauen in Polizei und Justiz”, Assessors’ event of the Sächsischer Richterverein, Chemnitz.
11.09.2023. Aaron Bielejewski, online lecture with discussion/exchange of expertise: “Public perception of victim-offender mediation – a look at the media”, Saxony State Working Group on VOM.
06.09.2023. Kristin Weber, lecture: “The dark path of homegrown terrorism. Inside the German network of foreign terrorist fighters – Radicalization, recruitment and taking action”, 23rd Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Venice, Italy.
17.07.2023. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “Narrative von Geschlecht und Identität hinter Gittern: Gefängnis-Zeitungen als Ausdrucks-Medien”, Symposium “Gender & Marginalization / Geschlecht und Marginalisierung”, Siegen.
10.07.2023. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Zwischen Furcht und Vertrauen – Ergebnisse der Panelstudie zur Wahrnehmung von Kriminalität und Straftäter:innen (PaWaKS)”, University of Leipzig.
06.07.2023. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “Please stand clear of the closing door: Access, media, and the control of space in a women’s prison in Germany”, Conference of the Society for the Study of Social Interaction (SSSI), Cardiff, UK.
03.07.2023. Deliah Bolesta, Jennifer Laura Führer, Rowenia Bender & Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Rally round the flag! Attitudes on the war in Ukraine and the impact of ideology and threat”, 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland.
01.07.2023. Jennifer Laura Führer, Rowenia Bender, Deliah Bolesta & Frank Asbrock, Presentation: “The context matters – or does it? Modeling the individual development of pro-diversity beliefs on a societal and organizational level”, 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland.
01.07.2023. Rowenia Bender, Deliah Bolesta, Jennifer Laura Führer & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Intergroup contact in the context of justice: the influence of contact with justice, police and offenders on attitudes toward these groups”, 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland.
22.06.2023. Kristin Weber, online lecture: “Jugendkriminalität. Prevelences in the digital age and the influence of the peer group”, 2nd network meeting of the working group “Social networks in schools”.
19.06.2023. Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Impulsvortrag zum Zentrum für kriminologische Forschung Sachsen”, Parliamentary Evening of the Chemnitz University of Technology, Saxon State Parliament, Dresden.
14.06.2023. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Zwischen Furcht und Vertrauen – die Wahrnehmung von Kriminalität, ihre Ursachen und Folgen”, exhibition “Es wird immer schlimmer…” by the ZKFS, Chemnitz City Library. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29564.31367
08.06.2023. Frank Asbrock & Jennifer Führer, Lecture: “Gewalt und wahrgenommene Sicherheit im Sozialraum”, Gewalt in Sozialräumen, Chemnitz. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15506.84160
02.06.2023. Aaron Bielejewski, Workshop: “Public perception of restorative justice approaches. A look at the media”, symposium “Alles wird gut?” by the Saxon State Center for Political Education and Hammer Weg e.V., Meißen.
08.05.2023. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “Interkulturelle Kommunikation und polizeiliche Autorität”, as part of the continuing education seminar “Migration, Diversity und Polizei”, German Police University, Münster.
09.03.2023. Deliah Bolesta, Jennifer Laura Führer, Rowenia Bender & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “The Ukraine War: Third party attitudes and their ideological underpinnings”, 24 Hours of Political Psychology, Bielefeld.
2022
25.11.2022. Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Crime – entertaining and frightening”, Seniorenkolleg of Chemnitz University of Technology.
06.11.2022. Aaron Bielejewski, lecture/workshop: “Wires through walls: media in and out of prisons”, conference “Build Peace”, Chemnitz.
30.09.2022. Frank Asbrock, lecture: “Fear of crime and trust in state institutions: Current findings and pointers for prevention practice”, network event Prevention Management, Center for Criminological Research Saxony, TUCed, Chemnitz.
09.09.2022. Deliah Bolesta, Jennifer Laura Führer, Annalena Oehme & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Interindividuelle Unterschiede in der stereotypen Wahrnehmung von Straftäter:innen”, 17th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society, Hannover.
09.09.2022. Frank Asbrock & Rowenia Bender, lecture: “Kontaktfahrungen mit Polizei, Justiz und Straftäter:innen”, KrimG 2022 – 17th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society, Hanover. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11271.06567
08.09.2022. Aaron Bielejewski, Lecture: “In gezwungener Gesellschaft: Medien, Zusammenhalt und Konflikt in der Justizvollzugsanstalt”, 17th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society, Hanover.
03.07.2022. Rowenia Bender & Frank Asbrock, Lecture: “Revealing the Constitution of National Identification: The Impact of Values Associated with National Identification on the Perception of Norm Deviating Behavior and Outgroup Attitudes”, 22nd Jena Workshop on Interground Processes, Eyba.
01.07.2022. Frank Asbrock & Jennifer Führer, Lecture: “Radikalisierung und Prävention durch Teilhabe”, Event “10 Jahre Inpeos”, Chemnitz.
2021
25.11.2021. Aaron Bielejewski, online lecture: “Something that needs to be dealt with: identity and outsider roles in the policing of public events”, conference of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research.
PaWaKS data manuals
German data manual for PaWaKS
Here you will find all the details about the survey, the sample and a detailed list of all the scales used.
English PaWaKS data handbook
Here you will find all the details about the survey, the sample and a detailed list of all the scales used.
HaSteX data manuals
German data manual for HaSteX
This data manual provides detailed information on how the study was conducted, the composition of the sample and the variables and scales used.
English HaSteX data handbook
This data handbook provides detailed information on the study’s implementation, the composition of the sample, and the variables and scales used.
Pawak's reports
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First series of reports (2022)
Second series of reports (2023)
Annual reports
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