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  1. Intimate partner violence against men in Germany - A study on prevalence, victim-offender overlap, and the role of parental violence Journal Article
    Schemmel, Jonas; Maciey, Dario; Goede, Laura-Romina (2025)
    In: Journal of interpersonal violence
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Victims (93) Violence (29) Domestic or gender-based violence (23) Parents and children (9) Men (2)
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  2. Legal and criminological perspectives on hate crime and hate crime control in Germany Contribution
    Kilchling, Michael (2024)
    In: Anderez Belategi, Mikel; Garro Carrera, Enara; Gordon Benito, Iñigo; Landa Gorostiza, Jon-Mirena (Eds.), Hate crimes in comparative legal perspective, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 78-101
    Criminology (127) Victims (93) Extremism (36) Minorities (34) Antisemitism (32) Internet (28) Races (18) Discrimination (18) Hate crimes / Hate speech (11)
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  3. The just prison? Women’s prison reform and the figure of the “offender-as-victim” in Germany Journal Article
    Faust, Friederike; Nagel, Klara (2024)
    In: Studies in Social Justice, 18(2), pp. 264-282
    Criminology (127) Victims (93) Prisons and imprisonment (82) Women (38) Social justice (1)
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  4. The 'deadly embrace' of restorative justice in Germany Contribution
    Willms, Christoph; Malzahn, Rehzi (2024)
    In: Maglione, Giuseppe; Marder, Ian; Pali, Brunilda (Eds.), Restorative justice at a crossroads. Dilemmas of institutionalisation, Routledge, Abingdon, (Routledge frontiers of criminal justice, ), pp. 189-210
    Criminology (127) Legislation (42) Restorative justice (12) Conciliation and mediation (11)
  5. Assessing the validity of open-source biographical data in terrorism research Journal Article
    Kanol, Eylem; Hirth, Maria-Anna (2024)
    In: Terrorism and Political Violence
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Terrorism (81) Records (6) Biography: individual (2)
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  6. When violence is not an option: Perceived choice sets and differential deterrability among adolescents in Germany Journal Article
    Kroneberg, Clemens; Nägel, Christof (2024)
    In: Crime & Delinquency
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Criminal law: juveniles (75) Violence (29) Provocation (5)
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  7. Exploring heterogeneous effects of victimization on changes in fear of crime: The moderating role of neighborhood conditions Journal Article
    Kaiser, Florian; Oberwittler, Dietrich; Janssen, Heleen J.; Hoffman, Lesa (2024)
    In: Justice Quarterly, pp. 1-30
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Victims (93)
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  8. Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany? Journal Article
    Steinmann, Jan-Philip (2024)
    In: European Journal of Criminology, pp. 1-34
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Victims (93) Crime (44) Minorities (34) Religion (17)
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  9. Predictors of incidents during short leave: An analysis of prisoner personal files in the Lower Saxony prison system Journal Article
    Neumann, Merten; Schüttler, Helena; Klatt, Thimna (2024)
    In: Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 107(1), pp. 115-128
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Prisons and imprisonment (82) Recidivism (33) Penology (33) Drug abuse (13)
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  10. Unsupervised short leave in forensic addiction treatment: Is there an influence on treatment progress? Journal Article
    Neumann, Louisa; Neumann, Merten (2024)
    In: Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 107(1), pp. 54-63
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Recidivism (33) Penology (33) Drug abuse (13) Psychiatry (12) Alcohol and alcoholism (4)
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  11. Exploring gender disparities in the prosecution of theft cases: Propensity score matching on data from German court files Journal Article
    Leuschner, Fredericke (2023)
    In: European Journal of Criminology, 20(1), pp. 292-315
    Criminal procedure (233) Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Sentences (122) Prosecutorial discretion (37) Judicial discretion (21) Sex (16) Offenses against property (14) Judicial process (12)
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  12. Intimate partner violence in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings of a campus study Contribution
    Haverkamp, Rita; Hohendorf, Ines (2023)
    In: Muñoz Sánchez, Juan (Eds.), Estudios político criminales, jurídicos penales y criminológicos. Libro homenaje al Profesor José Luis Díez Ripollés, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, (Homenajes y Congresos, ), pp. 1763-1778
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Domestic or gender-based violence (23) Pandemic / Epidemic (18) Sex (16) Gender and gender identity (11)
  13. Impending challenges to penal moderation in France and Germany. A strained restraint Book
    Drenkhahn, Kirstin; Jobard, Fabien; Singelnstein, Tobias (2023)
    ISBN 9781032188676, Routledge, London; New York
    Comparative law (254) Criminology (127) Sentences (122) Sociology (33) Penology (33) News media (20)
  14. The short-term impact of formal controls on subsequent offending and future formal controls in a German and UK City Journal Article
    Boers, Klaus; Kaiser, Florian; Schaerff, Marcus; Wikström, Per-Olof H. (2023)
    In: Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, pp. 1-22
    Criminology (127) Sanctions, Criminal (77) Criminal law: juveniles (75) Punishment, Purposes of (65) Penology (33)
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  15. Differential updating and morality: Is the way offenders learn from police detection associated with their personal morals? Journal Article
    Kaiser, Florian; Huss, Björn; Schaerff, Marcus (2023)
    In: European Journal of Criminology, 20(3), pp. 1061-1080
    Empirical research (163) Criminology (127) Punishment, Purposes of (65) Law and ethics (12)
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