Dr. Gunda Wössner

Gunda Wöss­ner is one of the heads of the Vir­tu­al Burg­lary Pro­ject. As head of the re­search pro­ject Sex Of­fend­ers in the so­cial thera­peut­ic in­sti­tu­tions in the Free State of Sax­ony, Gunda Wöss­ner's re­search areas are sexual delinquency and vi­ol­ent of­fend­ing with a spe­cial fo­cus on treat­ment eval­u­ation of these of­fend­er groups, risk as­sess­ment and the ex­am­in­a­tion of risk and pro­tect­ive factors that are as­so­ci­ated with re­cidiv­ism and de­sist­ance. This in­cludes re­search on de­vel­op­ment­al path­ways to sexu­al offending and vi­ol­ent of­fend­ing. Since June 2021, she has been lead­ing the mod­ule "Viol­ence against part­ners and chil­dren" of the re­search pro­ject The consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for crime in southwest Germany (COVID-19-KRIM), which is fun­ded by the BMBF and con­duc­ted at the Max Planck In­sti­tute.

An­oth­er re­search fo­cus in­cluded the eval­u­ation of "Elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing of pris­on­ers in Baden-Württem­berg/Ger­many".
She was also a mem­ber of the Steer­ing Group on the DAPHNE III pro­ject De­vel­op­ing in­teg­rated re­sponses to sexu­al vi­ol­ence: An in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary re­search pro­ject on the po­ten­tial of res­tor­at­ive justice.
Her re­search in­terests in­clude:

• Sexu­al (re)offending and vi­ol­ent (re)of­fend­ing, (ter­ror­ist) risk as­sess­ment, de­vel­op­ment­al path­ways
• Of­fend­er treat­ment, de­sist­ance, and reentry re­search
• Elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing
• Eval­u­ation
• Vic­timo­logy and res­tor­at­ive justice.