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Meet the Researchers


Episode 8: James M. An­go­ve, Senior Re­searcher, Department of Public Law

Episode 8: James M. An­go­ve, Senior Re­searcher, Department of Public Law

“When political violence happens, it is tempting to point a finger at those who committed the violence or those who en­couraged them. But, on inspection, modern political violence doesn’t always meet these expectations. Re­mem­ber the ‘Storm’ on the US Capitol build­ing in 2021, which was plausibly encouraged by a powerful political figure.
This indirect enabling of political vio­lence has become known as ‘stochastic terrorism’. We don’t have many philo­soph­i­cal or legal anal­yses of stochastic terrorism yet, and my re­search here at the Institute aims to address this gap.”
Episode 7: Federica Cop­pola, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

Episode 7: Federica Cop­pola, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

“One of the most pressing issues in cur­rent de­bates on criminal justice con­cerns the short­com­ings of imprison­ment. Prison environ­ments can have traumatizing effects on con­fined people. Long prison sentences have no positive impact on relapses on criminal be­hav­ior. Such drawbacks clearly reflect an insti­tu­tional and societal failure to fulfill the individual justice and public safety goals of legal punish­ment.”
Episode 6: Sebastian Kübel, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Criminology

Episode 6: Sebastian Kübel, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Criminology

“How do you view your fu­ture? Although I hope you have optimistic expectations, I am con­vinced that one’s view of the future depends very much on past expe­ri­ence. In my research, I consider how future prospects might sud­denly change after being violently victimized.”
Episode 5: Clara Rigoni, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

Episode 5: Clara Rigoni, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

“We probably all agree that plurality is a major characteristic of today´s socie­ties. But what role does plurality play in criminal law? And, in particular, how can we guarantee effective crime control in socie­ties that are so diverse?”
Episode 4: Ivó Coca-Vila, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

Episode 4: Ivó Coca-Vila, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

“What types of behavior should be criminalized in western democratic states?”
Episode 3: Sofiya Kartalova, Postdoc, Department of Public Law

Episode 3: Sofiya Kartalova, Postdoc, Department of Public Law

“What is the mysterious adhesive that helps the Member States of the European Union stick together?”
Episode 2: Dominik Gerstner, Postdoc, De­part­ment of Criminology

Episode 2: Dominik Gerstner, Postdoc, De­part­ment of Criminology

“How can virtual reality experiments help us to better understand the behavior of burglars?”
Episode 1: The Directors

Episode 1: The Directors

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News & Bulletins

A recent article in the EU Research & Innovation Magazine Horizon profiles the FutureU research project. Pub­lished under the title Curbing crime with ...

Gunda Wössner, a long-standing researcher for the Max Planck Society, has accepted an appointment as professor at the Protestant University of Applied ...

Widespread human rights violations that amount to crimes against humanity are being committed against civilians by Nicaragua’s government for ...

This special issue is the result of a workshop held at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg/Germany in autumn ...

Events

Words and Violence (external event)

Mar 30, 2023 09:00 AM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan / Italy, Room: G. 127 Pio XI and online

Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law (external event)

Mar 30, 2023 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Buenos Aires UTC-3:00)
School of Law, University of Buenos Aires / Argentina

Living safely in the city of the future

Mar 30, 2023 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Daimler and Benz Foundation – via Zoom

Platform launch of the RECOGNISE project (external event)

Apr 13, 2023 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Amsterdam UTC+02:00)
Faculty of Law, Maastricht University / NL, Room: Feestzaal / B1.113

Protecting the EU’s financial interests: Workshop on recent legal anti-fraud research

Apr 24, 2023 - Apr 25, 2023
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Recent Publications

Journal Article
Coca-Vila, I. (2023). On the Necessity Defense in a Democratic Welfare State: Leaving Pandora’s Box Ajar. Criminal Law and Philosophy. doi:10.1007/s11572-023-09667-7
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2023). Endstation „Triage“ bei Menschen mit Behinderungen? Zeitschrift für Disability Studies, 2023(1). doi:10.15203/ZDS_2023_1.06
Journal Article
Ścigała, K. A., Arkoudi, I., Schild, C., Pfattheicher, S., & Zettler, I. (2023). The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language. Journal of Research in Personality, 103, 104351. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104351
Collected Edition
Hörnle, T. (Ed.). (2023). Sexual Assault: Law Reform in a Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Contribution to a Collected edition
Hörnle, T. (2023). The New German Law on Sexual Assault. In T. Hörnle (Ed.), Sexual Assault: Law Reform in a Comparative Perspective (pp. 141–162). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Contribution to a Collected edition
Hörnle, T. (2023). A Comparison of Sexual Assault Laws and Some Advice for Law Reform. In T. Hörnle (Ed.), Sexual Assault: Law Reform in a Comparative Perspective (pp. 237–272). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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