Friedrich Lösel (Germany)

Professor Friedrich Lösel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at University of Cambridge. Before that he was at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he was Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Psychology. Prior to that, he was a Professor of psychology at the University of Bielefeld.

His research interests are in the fields of criminology, clinical psychology, psychology and law, assessment, and programme evaluation. He has worked, for example, on juvenile delinquency, prisons and their alternatives, offender treatment, football hooliganism, school bullying, personality disordered offenders, resilience, close relationships, risk assessment for child abuse, and evaluation methodology. Since 1999, he has been conducting a combined prospective longitudinal and experimental study of 700 children and their families to investigate factors that either fuel or prevent the development of antisocial behaviour.

Professor Lösel received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2006.