Prof. Dr. Heike Allgayer
Biological and related sciences, Health
Health, Law
Sociology, criminology
Criminology and criminal justice
International comparative criminology, in particular interpersonal and governmental violence
Corruption and white-collar crime
Criminality in the middle class
Criminal justice
International crime and justice
Transitional justice
Emotion and criminality
Democracy
Criminality and criminal justice
Thorsten Sellin and Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology, 2007
Award in Recognition of Outstanding Services to the International Society of Criminology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
Christa Hoffmann Riem Prize for the Sociology of Law (now known as the Christa Hoffmann Riem Prize for Law and Society), 2005
English, French, German
Karstedt, S.: Legal Institutions and Collective Memories. Oxford: Hart, 2009.
Karstedt, S., Oberwittler, D.: Soziologie der Kriminalität (Sociology of Crime). In: Sonderheft 43 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialspychologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Sozialwissenschaften 2004.
Karstedt, S.: Democracy, Values and Violence: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Comparative Advantages of Liberal Inclusion.
In: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 605, 2006. S. 50-81. Translated into Spanish: Democracia, valores y violencia: Paradojas, tensiones y ventajas comparativas de la inclusión liberal. In: Serrano Maillo, A., Guzman Dalbora, J. L.: Procesos de Infracción de Normas y de Reacción a la Infracción de Normas: Dos Tradiciones Criminológicas. Madrid: Dykinson, 2008. S. 277-312.
Karstedt, S., Farrall, S.: The Moral Economy of Everyday Crime: Markets, Consumers and Citizens. In: British Journal of Criminology 46, 2006. S. 1011-1036.
Karstedt, S.: Emotions and Criminal Justice. In: Theoretical Criminology, 6, 2002. S. 299-317. Translated into Portuguese: In: Machado, Helena e Santos, Filipe: Justiça, ambientes mediáticos e ordem social (Justice, media environments and social order ). Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus 2010.
Karstedt, S.: Comparing Cultures, Comparing Crime: Challenges, Prospects and Problems for a Global Criminology. In: Crime, Law & Social Change 36, 2001. S. 285-308. Reprinted in: Larsen, N., Smandych, R.: Global Criminology and Criminal Justice. Current Issues and Perspectives. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2008, S. 23-46.
Karstedt, S.: Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany after 1945 and 1989: Public Judgments on Procedures and Justice. In: Law and Policy 20, 1998. S. 15-56.
Karstedt, S.: Genozid (Genocide). In: Schneider, H.-J. (ed.): Internationales Handbuch der Kriminologie. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Karstedt, S.: Macht, Ungleichheit und Korruption: Strukturelle und kulturelle Determinanten im internationalen Vergleich (Power, Inequality and Corruption: Structural and Cultural Determinants). In: Oberwittler, D., Karstedt, S. (eds.): Soziologie der Kriminalität. Sonderheft 43 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Sozialwissenschaften, 2004. S. 384-412.
Karstedt, S.: Individualismus und Gewalt: Extreme Modernisierung oder Re-Traditionalisierung der Gesellschaft? (Individualism and Violence: Extreme Modernization or Re-Traditionalization of Society?). In: Albrecht, G. et al.: Gewaltkriminalität zwischen Mythos und Realität. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2001. S. 236-255. Translated: Individualisme et Violence: Modernisation extreme our re-traditionalisation de la societe? Une comparaison interculturelle. In: Deviance et Societe 29, 2005. S. 273-284.
Member of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Board for Law and Criminology, since 2011
Referee for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), EU, Hong Kong Research Council, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, German Research Foundation, National Science Foundation and others
Member of the International Prize Award committee, the Law and Society Association, 2010/2011
Member of the Sellin Glueck Award committee, American Society of Criminology, 2010/2011
Member of the scientific advisory board for the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), Hannover, Germany, since 2009
Member of the advisory board for the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Crime, Vienna, Austria, since 2008
Co-chair of the steering committee for the World Forum on Law and Society, since 2007
Member of the evaluation forum on law and social science for the University Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Government and States, German Research Foundation, 2005, 2007
Member of the forum on law and criminology for the German Research Endowment, 2004 – 2008
Member of the jury for the International Book Award of the ASC's DIC, 2004
Director of the science committee, International Society for Criminology, 2003 – 2005
Member of the advisory board, ESRC Cambridge Network for the Study of Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime (SCOPIC), 2002 – 2008
Member of the programme committee for the International Conference on Law and Society, Budapest, Hungary, 2001
Member of the jury, Fritz Sack Prize for Criminology, Learned Society of Criminology (GIWK), since 2000
Member of the jury, Socio-Legal Student Prize, Research Committee for the Sociology of Law, German Society for Sociology, 2000 – 2008
Member of the directors' committee, International Society for Criminology, 1999 – 2005
Member of the board, research committee on the sociology of law, German Sociological Association, 1998 – 2008
Member of the board for the Vereinigung für Rechtssoziologie (Association for the Sociology of Law), 1998 – 2000
Member of the board for Research Committee 29 (Deviance and Social Control) of the International Sociological Association, 1995 – 2000
Editorial board, Journal of Sociology, since 2008
Editor, series of publications of the Association for the Sociology of Law, since 2007
Editorial board, Regulation and Governance, since 2007
Editorial board since 2006, editor since 2007 of the British Journal of Criminology
Editorial board, Studi Sulla Questione Criminale, since 2006
Editorial board, European Journal of Criminology, since 2005
Editorial board, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie and Strafrechtsreform (Criminology and Criminal Justice Reform Monthly – the oldest and leading criminology journal in German language), since 2005
Editorial board, Social Problems, since 2001
Editorial advisory board, Journal of the Sociology of Law, since 2000
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Biological and related sciences, Health
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Law, Family law, legislation related to personal rights (esp. protection of personality rights, law of associations and foundation law), medical law, adult protection legislation, inheritance law
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Susanne Karstedt studies how cultural values and people's moral decision making affect violent and other crimes.