Wolfgang Heinz (criminologist)

Wolfgang Heinz ( born April 23, 1942 in Pforzheim ) is a German criminologist and legal scholars.

Vita

Wolfgang Heinz studied in Freiburg Law and received his doctorate in 1972 with a thesis on " Determinants of the willingness to report the victim ." 1975/76 was his habilitation with a thesis on " Crime Statistics - development and status, problems and prospects ". After working as a researcher and professor at the Universities of Augsburg (1976) and Constance ( 1976-1978 ), he was from 1978 to 1981 professor at the University of Bielefeld, before he was called in 1981 to the chair of criminal justice with a minor areas of the Department of Law at the University of Konstanz been. In October 2007, Heinz was given emeritus status.

His research focus has Heinz in the field of empirical criminology and criminal law factual research, in particular the Jugendkriminologie and juvenile justice, comparative sanctions and action research, here especially in the area of diversion, the Economic Criminology and white collar crime, criminal and judicial statistics, and their amendment by victimological surveys ( population surveys, dark field research).

In Konstanz, he established the Constance inventory to sanction research and the Konstanz Inventory of crime trends, in addition to the published and unpublished data of the Police Crime Statistics and judicial business and legal statistics continuously prepare and make available for research. From the federal government Heinz was appointed as a scientific member of the Panel " Periodic Safety Report " the federal government.