Johannes Feest

Johannes Feest ( born November 21, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German forensic scientists and legal sociologist.

Feest studied law in Vienna and Munich, and sociology in Tübingen and at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of law enforcement, penal and criminal law at the University of Bremen. From 1995 to 1997 he headed the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in the Basque Oñate. In retirement, he took care of reinforced issues of punishment and preventive detention. Since the relocation of the prison archive from Bremen to Dortmund, he has only been its Web Page. Since 2011 he is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Law and Criminology Sociology in Vienna. Christian Feest and Gerhard DC are his brothers.

Publications (selection)

• (1972 ) The definition of the police power. Strategies of law enforcement and social selection ( with Erhard Blankenburg ). Dusseldorf: Bertelsmann University Press.
• (1997 ) Total institution and redress. An examination of the legal protection in prison ( with Wolfgang and Peter Lesting selling). Opladen: West German publisher.
• (2001) Adapting Legal Cultures ( ed., together with David cloves). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• (2012 ) Commentary on the Sentences Act ( Eds.), 6th edition. Heymann Publisher: Cologne.

Festschrift

• Sven- U.Burkhardt, Christine Graebsch, Helmut Pollähne (ed.): correspondences. In terms of: Prison, legal cultures, crime policy, human rights. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005.