Criminological Research Trends in Western Germany

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. General Trends Concerning Scientific Research in Criminology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Present State of Scientific Research in Criminology

      • Thomas Würtenberger

      Pages 2-14

   3. The Relationship between Scientific Research and Criminal Policy

      • Günther Kaiser

      Pages 15-34

   4. The Relationship between Scientific Research and Teaching in Criminology

      • Hans-Jürgen Kerner

      Pages 35-55

3. Probation Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Research on Sentencing in Probation and Especially the Choice of Delinquents to Be Put on Probation

      • Heinz Leferenz

      Pages 58-61

   3. Investigations on the Validity of Prediction Tables in the Field of Probation

      • Heinz Leferenz

      Pages 62-73

   4. Research into the Effectiveness of Probation Results

      • Friedrich Schaffstein

      Pages 74-88

4. Problems of Methodology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Research Priorities in Criminology

      • Ulrich Eisenberg

      Pages 90-100

   3. Necessity and Function of Interdisciplinary Criminology

      • Hartmut Schellhoss

      Pages 101-110

5. Research in Progress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Psychotherapeutic Treatment in German Penal Institutions

      • Rainer Leisner

      Pages 112-132

6. Criminological Bibliography

   1. Criminological Bibliography

      • Günther Kaiser, Thomas Würtenberger

      Pages 133-166

7. Back Matter

   Pages 167-178

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The articles in this volume were originally reports conceived as Germany's contribution to the 6th International Congress of Criminology in Madrid. Impressions gained at this world congress, prompted our decision to make these papers available in the English language. In this way we hope to make accessible to an international audience the most recent reflections, approaches and research findings of criminologists in the Federal Republic of Germany. We are adding to this collection a bibliography listing all criminological It seems to us monographs published in German within the last five years. that a systematic survey of the literature is highly suitable for completing the picture outlined in the various articles. This should provide some idea of the focal points and tendencies of the present thinking and of the efforts at institutionalization in German criminology. Last but not least, this col­ lection may help to revise the opinion that criminology in the German­ speaking world is still largely biologically oriented. The editors are aware of the scholarly and editorial risks connected with the publication of such a volume. Nevertheless they believe that these risks have to be faced in order to provide information about the present crimino­ logical thinking in the Federal Republic of Germany and to illustrate its close links with the international scene. We hope that this book will be accepted by the international public as a contribution to a "comparative criminology". Should this venture find an interested audience, similar volumes could follow in regular intervals.

• English
• Germany
• criminology
• research
• survey

• University of Freiburg, Germany

  Günther Kaiser, Thomas Würtenberger

• Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany

  Günther Kaiser

• Institute of Criminology and Penology of this University, Germany

  Thomas Würtenberger

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