The “Kriminologisches Journal” (KrimJ) is a quarterly scientific journal which is published by Beltz-Juventa. The journal features original scientific articles, discussion papers, practice and research reports on criminological theory and practice in German and English language. The thematic focus is on critical approaches to the structures and measures of social control bodies. All manuscripts undergo selective editorial and peer-review assessment prior to acceptance for publication. The peer-review process is strictly anonymous.
The “Kriminologisches Journal” is available both in print and online. Single issues and subscriptions are available at Beltz Juventa.
Issue 1/2024
Issue 1/2024
Content
Full Paper
Recht, Gewalt und Protest: Zur Genese und Funktion des strafrechtlichen Gewaltbegriffs (German)
Law, violence and protest: On the genesis and function of the concept of violence in criminal law
Aldo Legnaro
The climate protests of the Last Generation have brought the criminal law definition of violence back to the center of legal, political and social discussions. This definition has been changed and further developed over the last 60 years, as shown by the case law of the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court. Both courts set different emphases, the generative principles of which can be described as fictionalization and contextualization of the concept of violence. Fictionalization, which tends to restrict the freedom to demonstrate, is primarily carried out by the Federal Court of Justice, while the Federal Constitutional Court tends to contextualize and thus enables a demonstration-friendly case law.
„Zwischen Block-Romantik und Krise“– Ethnografische Ergebnisse zur symbolischen Aneignung ,unsicherer‘ Räume im Kontext Gangsta-Rap (German)
“Between Block Romanticism and Crisis” – ethnographic results on the symbolic appropriation of ‘unsafe’ spaces in the context of gangsta rap
Julia Rieger
Based on empirical results from an ethnographic study on the reception and appropriation of gangsta rap, this article deals with the significance of localization in urban spaces labeled as ‘unsafe’. The focus is on the everyday perspective of the young recipients who live in such neighborhoods. Different strategies for dealing with external labelling are elaborated, which include in particular the empowering stylization through references to the pop cultural phenomenon of gangsta rap. The analysis of ethnographic data thus reveals a view of subaltern conceptions of ‘unsafe’ urban spaces in the context of their symbolic appropriation.
Polizeigesetzgebung in Zeiten autoritärer Konjunktur. Eine historisch-materialistische Politikanalyse der Reform des nordrhein-westfälischen Polizeigesetzes 2018 (German)
Police law in times of an authoritarian conjuncture. A historical-materialist policy analysis of the reform of the North Rhine-Westphalian police law 2018
Paul Häfner & Nils Münger
By looking at the police law amendment in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2018, the interests and political influence of institutionalized and civil society actors on the amendment process will be examined by means of a historical-materialistic policy analysis. Through the qualitative analysis of documents and interviews with experts, the constellations of actors and interests will be clarified and their dynamics traced. In the process, the powerful position of an authoritarization project, which was able to implement its demands almost in their entirety despite civil society protests, is elaborated.
Discussion Paper
Polizeigewalt und städtische Revolten in Frankreich. Der Sommer 2023 (German)
Police violence and urban revolts in France. The summer of 2023
Fabien Jobard
In the summer of 2023, France experienced a wave of urban revolts the likes of which the country had never seen before: half a thousand cities were affected, more than 10,000 vehicles were set on fire, as well as nearly 300 police or gendarmerie buildings and more than 100 town halls. The article looks at the immediate causes of this explosion and, with a comparative look at the 2005 uprisings, analyses the possible impact of these riots on relations between politics and the underprivileged youth on the one hand and between politics and the police on the other, in a context in which a fatal police shooting was the trigger for the riots but the police remained immune to any criticism from those responsible for the government.
In Discussion
Zur Wissenschaftsfreiheit in der kriminologischen Forschung. Im Gespräch mit Hans-Jürgen Kerner, Marion Näser-Lather & Mark Stemmler (German)
On scientific freedom in criminological research. A discussion with Hans-Jürgen Kerner, Marion Näser-Lather & Mark Stemmler
Dörte Negnal & Stephanie Schmidt
Book reviews
Sarah Colvin: Shadowland. The Story of Germany told by its Prisoners (Graebsch)
Andrea Kretschmann: Simulative Souveränität. Eine Soziologie politischer Ordnungsbildung (Fritsch)
Helge Peters: Eine konstruktivistische Soziologie sozialer Probleme (Jukschat)
Conference Report
Bericht zum Kriminologischen Sommerfest
Doreen Muhl & Dörte Negnal
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