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"The Police: Friend or Foe?" This was the motto of a digital lunchtime discussion hosted by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Südbaden on August 10th. Armin Schuster … More

with Armin Schuster (Member of the German Parliament) and Prof. Ralf Poscher, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security … More

In Germany, a number of child abuse cases have dominated the headlines in recent months. Amidst calls for harsher punishment for the perpetrators, the … More

The "Black Lives Matter" movement in the United States has led to a series of solidarity rallies in Germany and throughout Europe. At the … More

After George Floyd’s death, thousands of citizens across the United States and Europe took to the streets to protest against racism and police violence. … More

The numbers of femicides have remained consistently high over the past years. One thing all perpetrators have in common is patriarchal ideas and an … More

eucrim is an online journal that offers a Europe-wide platform for European criminal law and invites both practitioners and academics to engage in discussion. More

The police forces currently find themselves in the focus of public debate. This was triggered partly by the attacks on police officers in Stuttgart … More

If serious serial crimes involving child sexual abuse and the distribution of child pornographic images are detected, as was recently the case in Münster … More

Ralf Poscher, director of the Department of Public Law, told the New York Times that, after the Second World War, the Allies wanted to … More

„Strafraum“ or “Penalty Area” – this is the name of a project by the Freiburg Bürgerstiftung (citizens’ foundation) that will form part of the … More

Filip Vojta was distinguished with the Max Planck Society’s Otto Hahn Medal on June 17, 2020. The jurist and criminologist received the award for … More

Every year, the Max Planck Society presents a scientific activity report in the form of the Yearbook as an account to the public and … More

As would-be criminals heed stay-at-home orders, major cities across the globe have reported a significant drop in both property and violent crimes. The numbers … More

What currently makes the authorities fail in their efforts to take down professional money launderers and complex money laundering schemes? Benjamin Vogel, head of … More

Killing has rarely been easier than it is today. Droplets from speech, coughing, and spitting, all of which can be fatal. In a guest … More

What distinguishes economic espionage from industrial espionage? What practical problems do affected companies face when they want to report actual or suspected espionage? These … More

Lecturer: Prof. Dan Nagin Ph.D. (Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University) | Date, time: … More