Hans-Jurgen Kerner (Germany)

Hans-Jürgen Kerner is Professor in Criminology, Juvenile Law, Corrections and Penal Procedure at the Faculty of Law, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, and Director of the Institute of Criminology. He is Honorary President on the International Society for Criminology, President-Elect of the European Society of Criminology, Chair of the German Foundation for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders, and President of the National Association for Social Work, Penal Law and Crime Policy (DBH). He has written extensively on many topics of crime, crime prevention, crime control, criminology, criminal justice, juvenile justice, corrections, probation and parole. He is serving at present as an expert for the German federal task force to prepare the second edition of the "Periodical Report on Crime and Crime Control in Germany", to be published in early 2006. He has received a couple of awards, among them the "Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award" of the American Society of Criminology for outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by a non-American criminologist.