Dr. Florian Kaiser

Senior Researcher
Independent Research Group Space, Contexts, and Crime
+49 761 7081-344

Main Focus

  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Effects of Juvenile Justice Interventions
  • Consequences of Criminal Victimization
  • Generalized Trust
  • Quantitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences
  • Criminological Theories

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Appointments

2022–present: Senior researcher, Independent Research Group Space, Contexts, and Crime, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany

Professional Experience

2015–2022: Researcher at the Institute of Criminology, University of Münster, Germany

2013–2015: Student assistant at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany

Education

2016–2022: Ph.D. Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany (supervisors: Jost Reinecke, Klaus Boers)

2018: Stay abroad as a visiting Ph.D. student at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK (by invitation of Per-Olof Wikström)

2012–2015: M.A. Sociology (Sociological methods), Bielefeld University, Germany (supervisors: Thomas Blank, Reinhard Schunck)

2009–2012: B.A. Sociology, University of Bremen, Germany (supervisor: Alexander Gattig)


Project

Crime, Insecurities, and Social Dynamics in Urban Neighborhoods

The major goal of this study is to advance the understanding of structural conditions and so­cial processes in rela­tion to crime problems in urban neighborhoods in a longitudinal per­spec­tive. Residents’ subjective perceptions of disorder and crime as well as collective social cap­i­tal are key mechanisms in the complex social processes… more

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