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Dr. Dr. Hannes Rusch

Research Group Leader
Criminology
Independent Research Group Behavioral Economics of Crime and Conflict
+49 761 7081-289

Main Focus

  • Criminal behavior, esp. exploitation, human trafficking, and cybercrime
  • Police research
  • Discrimination and intergroup conflicts

Curriculum Vitae

Current positions

  • Since 2023: Research group leader, Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany
  • Since 2022: Associate professor (with tenure), Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Independent Research Group

Projects

Head of project: Hannes Rusch
Exploitation takes many forms ranging from wage theft, to human trafficking, to forced labor. Despite ongoing calls to address exploitation, the fundamentals of this issue are severely understudied. We have only limited understanding of its…

Co-PI: Hannes Rusch
Cybercrime’s hidden toll extends far beyond headline-grabbing data breaches. Financial losses are only the beginning: each attack ripples outward, causing psychological distress, reputational damage, and eroding public trust. As part of the ARCH consortium, the…

Head of project: Hannes Rusch
Opportunities in life in Europe de facto hinge on group member­ships that de jure should not matter for individual outcomes – prompting EC president Ursula von der Leyen to press for renewed efforts to answer the question: “Why do racism and…

Contributors / Researchers: Hannes Rusch, Julia Teufel
In the applied project “PV,” we are transferring findings from a previous research collaboration within the framework of the EU-funded project “DISGRID” into a practical application. The aim now is to tailor the training of…

Heads of project: Matthias Burghart, Hannes Rusch, Isabel Thielmann
Can psychomet­ric testing to assess individual differences usefully comple­ment the existing selection procedures used by state police forces in Germany? – State police forces in Germany receive thousands of…

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