Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
Department of Criminology
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kemme
Professor of Criminology
Struck, J. (2025). The climate disaster as a criminological subject? Crime in the context of climate change with a focus on climate protest and its criminalization. International Conference on Conflict and Violence Research: 2025 - Conflict and violence in times of climate change, Bielefeld (17.09.2025).
Bendler, J. (2025). The Relationship Between the Development of Personal Morality and Delinquency. 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Athen, Griechenland (05.09.2025)
Kemme, S., Küssner, A., Droste, L., Maier, A. (2025). Punitiveness, Media, and Crime Attributions: What Shapes Attitudes Toward Cannabis Legalization? 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Athen, Griechenland (04.09.2025)
Clasen, J, Groß, E., Häfele, J., Kammigan, I., Kemme, S., Nickel, A., Taefi, A. & Zähringer, U. (2025). Working conditions as a risk factor for group-focused enmity in the police-force. The Stockholm Criminology Symposium (09.-11.6.2025)
Kemme, S. (2025). On fears and perceived threats: How xenophobia and fear of crime are related. Semester opening lecture for studies in old age, University of Münster (31.03.2025).
Schmitz, L. (2025): Police use of firearms: Research perspectives of the SAFE project. 6.Kriminologische Netzwerktagung in Münster (13.03.2025).
Schmitz, L. (2024): A Comparison between the use of firearms by the police in Germany and the USA. 41. annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (14.11.2024).
Kemme, S. (2024) Diskriminierung durch künstliche Intelligenz in der Polizeiarbeit - Wenn der Algorithmus Vorurteile hat [Discrimination by Artificial Intelligence in Policing - When the Algorithm Has Prejudices] 7. Hamburger Sicherheitsrechtstag (05.11.2024)
Bendler, J. (2024) Entwicklung der Akzeptanz von Rechtsnormen im Jugendalter. [Development of the acceptance of legal norms in adolescence.] 18th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society (28.09.2024)
Häfele, J.; Groß, E.; Kemme, S. (2024) Erfahrungen mit Antisemitismus aus jüdischer Perspektive [Experiences with Antisemitism from a Jewish Perspective.] 18th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society (28.09.2024)
Kemme, S.; Groß, E.; Häfele, J.; Bendler, J. (2024) Zur kausalen Effekt-Struktur von Kriminalitätsfurcht, Punitivität und ‚Fremdenfeindlichkeit‘ [On the Causal Effect Structure of Fear of Crime, Punitivity and 'Xenophobia'.] 18th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society (27.09.2024)
Schmitz, L. (2024) Polizeilicher Schusswaffengebrauch und mediale Darstellung: Rechtliche Grundlagen und öffentliche Meinungsbildung [Police Firearm Use and Media Representation: Legal Foundations and Public Opinion.] 18th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society (27.09.2024)
Kemme, S. (2024) Kind-gerecht? Zur Umsetzung von Schutzmaßnahmen für kindgerechte Strafverfahren in Theorie und Praxis. [Child-friendly? On the implementation of protective measures for child-friendly criminal proceedings in theory and practice.] 5th Juvenile Court Day NRW, University of Cologne (19.09.2024)
All presentations can be found here.
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kemme and Dr. Jens Struck from the Chair of Criminology at the University of Münster, together with Prof. Dr. Wilfried Honekamp (German Police University), are publishing the interdisciplinary edited volume "Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Future Police Work," which will be released by Springer in December 2025.The volume brings together contributions from criminology, law, computer science, and police practice, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence in the policing context. The focus is on both technological potentials and ethical, legal, and societal implications.
More information can be found on Springer's website.
7th Network Conference - Criminology in NRW
The next network conference will take place on March 19-20, 2026 at Ruhr University in Bochum.The network is an association of criminologists in North Rhine-Westphalia and consolidates the diverse activities at universities, colleges, and in practice in the fields of criminology, the sociology of deviant behavior and social problems, criminal psychology, and criminal pedagogy. It promotes exchange between research, teaching, and practice and is also aimed at the interested public.You can find the Call for Papers ►here.
Dr. Jens Struck in podcasts on the topic of
"Clan Crime"
In two recent podcasts, Dr. Jens Struck critically discusses the term and the which security authorities deal with so-called clan crime.
In the "Umdenken" podcast from the University of Münster, he explains why the term creates a biased perception and raises general suspicion of entire (extended) families.
In the WDR podcast "18 Millionen" he critically discusses the NRW authorities´so-called "policy of 1000 pinpricks".
Project - DeWePol
The first core findings from survey wave 1 of the project Democracy-Related Attitudes and Values in the Hamburg Police (DeWePol) (research team Prof. Dr. Julia Clasen, Prof. Dr. Eva Groß, Prof. Dr. Joachim Häfele, Dr. Ilka Kammigan, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kemme, Amelie Nickel (M. A.), Dr. Anabel Taefi, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Zähringer) are available here.
Prof. Dr. Kemme offers two lectures in the winter semester 2025/2026.
- Lecture Criminology I (Basics) - 032022
- Lecture Criminology II (Specialization - Specific Fields of Crime) - 032037
Dr. Schaerff offers in the winter semester 2025/2026 the
- Lecture Juvenile criminology and juvenile criminal law - 032045.
In the winter semester 2025/2026, Prof. Dr. Seifert offers the
- Lecture Forensic Psychiatry - 032118.
More information will be shared in the Learnweb course from now on.
Katja Eschen,
Prof. Dr. Kemme's office hours in the winter semester 2024/25 will only take place in digital form by individual appointment. To make an appointment, please contact kriminologie@uni-muenster.de.
Remonstrations must be submitted in writing, two weeks after the announcement of the grade. For more information, click here.
Görgen, T., Dangelmaier, T., Nüschen, S., Struck, J., Wagner, D. (2025). ‘Clan Crime’ – an Analysis of the State of Research on its Causes and the Conditions of its Emergence and Persistence. In: Wollinger, A. (eds) Critical analyses of so-called ‘clan crime’. Springer, Wiesbaden
Struck, J., Nüschen, S., Wagner, D., Dangelmaier, T. (2025). A Sequence Analysis of the Police Definition of “Clan” and “Clan Crime”: An Attempt to Reconstruct Specific Police Structures of Meaning. In: Wollinger, A. (eds) Critical analyses of so-called ‘clan crime’. Springer, Wiesbaden
Struck, J., Nüschen, S., Wagner, D., Görgen, T. (2025). On the Polysemy of ‘Clan Crime’ and the Difficulty of an Alternative Term. In: Wollinger, A. (eds) Critical analyses of so-called ‘clan crime’. Springer, Wiesbaden
Kemme, S., & Taefi, A. (forthcoming 2025). Methods of Police Research. In R. Behr, D. Hunold, & T. Singelnstein (Eds.), Handbook of Police Research. Nomos.
Kemme, S. & Bendler, J. (forthcoming 2025). On the reciprocal structure of adolescent substance use and delinquency - results of a German longitudinal study. K. Boers & J. Reinecke (Eds.), Crime in the Modern City (CrimoC). Waxmann.
Kemme, S. & Müller, R. (forthcoming 2025). Sexual victimization in public institutions. In Wollinger, G. R. & Zähringer, U. (Eds.), Victimology – Theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and legal practice. Springer.
Kemme, S. (forthcoming 2025). Child – appropriate? On the implementation of protective measures for child-friendly criminal proceedings in theory and practice. In Festschrift for Bernd-Dieter Meier.
Struck, J., Kemme, S. & Honekamp, W. (forthcoming 2025). Taking a look into the AI crystal ball? Impacts of artificial intelligence on the future work of law enforcement agencies. In W. Honekamp, S. Kemme & J. Struck (Eds.), Impacts of artificial intelligence on future police work - Technological potentials, legal frameworks, criminological and social science insights. Springer Gabler.
Honekamp, W. & Kemme, S. (forthcoming 2025). Challenges for police work due to the use of AI by offenders - technical and criminological insights using the example of large language models. In W. Honekamp, S. Kemme & J. Struck (Eds.), Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Future Police Work - Technological Potentials, Legal Frameworks, Criminological and Social Science Insights. Springer Gabler.
Kemme, S. (forthcoming 2025). Between Efficiency and the Right to Fairness: How Algorithmic Policing Can Reinforce Discrimination. In W. Honekamp, S. Kemme & J. Struck (Eds.), Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Future Police Work - Technological Potentials, Legal Frameworks, Criminological and Social Science Insights. Springer Gabler.
Schmitz, L., Kemme, S. & Struck, J. (2025). The last resort of state violence: Legal framework, prevalence, and state of research on police firearm use. Monthly Journal of Criminology and Criminal Law Reform. https://doi.org/10.1515/mks-2025-0003
Strnad, M., Kemme, S. & Posch, L. (2024). Application of characteristic-oriented content analysis by police students: On the influence of prior information on the evaluation of the credibility of victim witness statements. Rechtspsychologie,10(4), 471 – 500.
Kemme, S., Müller, R. & Schmitz, L. (2024). Biological and (neuro-)psychological aspects for the assessment of the criminal responsibility maturity of adolescents. Zeitschrift für Jugendkriminalrecht und Jugendhilfe, 4, 266-275.
Posch, L.; Kemme, S. (2024) Rape Myth Acceptance in German Police Officers and Its Influence on the Judgment of Victim Credibility and Credibility of the Testimony in a Real Police Interview. In: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Springer Nature Link
Struck, J.; Kemme, S. (2024) Abweichendes Verhalten und Kriminalisierung im Kontext der Klimabewegung. Ein systematischer Literaturüberblick [Deviant Behavior and Criminalization in the Context of the Climate Movement. A systematic literature review] In: Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, ISSN: 2366-1968, op. Research article (journal)
Groß, E.; Kemme, S.; Häfele, J.; Bendler, J. (2024). Zur Struktur des Zusammenhangs von Kriminalitätsfurcht, Punitivität und Fremdenfeindlichkeit. [On the Structure of the Connection between Fear of Crime, Punitivity and Xenophobia.] In: Wagner, D.; Führer, J. H.; Asbrock, F. (Ed.). From fear of crime to hostility. Dynamics of Crime Perception in a Political Context. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 103-132.
Kemme, S.; Bendler, J.; Struck, S. (2024). Subjektive Sicherheit - Ein Überblick über Konzeptualisierung, Forschungsstand und Impulse für die Prävention [Subjective Safety - An Overview of Conceptualization, State of Research and Impulses for Prevention.] In: Wollinger, G. (ed.), Sicherheit im Wandel. Expert reports on the 29th German Prevention Day. German Prevention Day gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH, Hannover.
Struck, J.; Nüschen, S.; Wagner, D.; Görgen, T. (2024). Analysen zum Konzept sogenannter Clankriminalität und seiner institutionellen Verwendungspraxis. [Analyses of the concept of so-called clan crime and its institutional use practice.] In: Technische Universität Berlin et al. (eds.), Crime in the context of large family structures. A brochure for security authorities, the judiciary, municipal offices, media, politics and social work. Berlin: TUB.
All publications can be found here.